"A mathematical argument, once understood, is in its capacity to compel belief a miracle of enlightened life."

"In the twelfth century, for example, Bhāskara demonstrated correctly that \sqrt{3} + \sqrt{12} = 3\sqrt{3}, an achiev…"

"Then he said what I knew—what I had always known—he would say. It is what the dead always say, and it is the only thi…"

"Stepping forward, I step back, the two steps, one forward and one back, canceling one another so that after they have…"

"It is here, at this very moment when the first utterly trivial differential equation is solved, that the secret form …"

"“Any idiot,” he said calmly but with immense conviction, “can learn anything in mathematics. It requires only patience.”"

"I have written this book in isolation, hardly talking to a soul, but unoppressed as well by campus codes or creeds, f…"

"Scientific education is catholic; it embraces the whole field of human learning. No student can master all knowledge …"

"Honest investigation is but the application of common sense to the solution of the unknown. Science does not wait on …"

"Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libat…"