Begin With The Simplest Examples.

One Can Measure The Importance Of A Scientific Work By The Number Of Earlier Publications Rendered Superfluous By It

Sometimes It Happens That A Man's Circle Of Horizon Becomes Smaller And Smaller, And As The Radius Approaches Zero It Concentrates On One Point. And Then That Becomes His Point Of View.

Who Of Us Would Not Be Glad To Lift The Veil Behind Which The Future Lies Hidden; To Cast A Glance At The Next Advances Of Our Science And At The Secrets Of Its Development During Future Centuries? What Particular Goals Will There Be Toward Which The Leading Mathematical Spirits Of Coming Generations Will Strive? What New Methods And New Facts In The Wide And Rich Field Of Mathematical Thought Will The New Centuries Disclose?

Galileo Was No Idiot. Only An Idiot Could Believe That Science Requires Martyrdom - That May Be Necessary In Religion, But In Time A Scientific Result Will Establish Itself.

No Other Question Has Ever Moved So Profoundly The Spirit Of Man; No Other Idea Has So Fruitfully Stimulated His Intellect; Yet No Other Concept Stands In Greater Need Of Clarification Than That Of The Infinite.