Everyone Carries His Own Inch

Mathematicians Practice Absolute Freedom.

[p]olitical And Social And Scientific Values ... Should Be Correlated In Some Relation Of Movement That Could Be Expressed In Mathematics, Nor Did One Care In The Least That All The World Said It Could Not Be Done, Or That One Knew Not Enough Mathematics Even To Figure A Formula Beyond The Schoolboy S=(1/2)gt2. If Kepler And Newton Could Take Liberties With The Sun And Moon, An Obscure Person ... Could Take Liberties With Congress, And Venture To Multiply Its Attraction Into The Square Of Its Time. He Had Only To Find A Value, Even Infinitesimal, For Its Attraction.

From Earliest Childhood The Boy Was Accustomed To Feel That, For Him, Life Was Double. Winter And Summer, Town And Country, Law And Liberty, Were Hostile, And The Man Who Pretended They Were Not, Was In His Eyes A Schoolmaster -- That Is, A Man Employed To Tell Lies To Little Boys.

Society' In America Means All The Honest, Kindly-mannered, Pleasant- Voiced Women, And All The Good, Brave, Unassuming Men, Between The Atlantic And The Pacific. Each Of These Has A Free Pass In Every City And Village, 'good For This Generation Only,' And It Depends On Each To Make Use Of This Pass Or Not As It May Happen To Suit His Or Her Fancy.

A Parent Gives Life, But As Parent, Gives No More. A Murderer Takes Life, But His Deed Stops There. A Teacher Affects Eternity; He Can Never Tell Where His Influence Stops.