It Is... Easy To Be

Among The Minor, Yet Striking Characteristics Of Mathematics, May Be Mentioned The Fleshless And Skeletal Build Of Its Propositions; The Peculiar Difficulty, Complication, And Stress Of Its Reasonings; The Perfect Exactitude Of Its Results; Their Broad Universality; Their Practical Infallibility.

In All The Works On Pedagogy That Ever I Read — And They Have Been Many, Big, And Heavy — I Don't Remember That Any One Has Advocated A System Of Teaching By Practical Jokes, Mostly Cruel. That, However, Describes The Method Of Our Great Teacher, Experience.

We Do Not Really Think, We Are Barely Conscious, Until Something Goes Wrong.

The Woof And Warp Of All Thought And All Research Is Symbols, And The Life Of Thought And Science Is The Life Inherent In Symbols; So That It Is Wrong To Say That A Good Language Is Important To Good Thought, Merely; For It Is The Essence Of It.

Doubt Is An Uneasy And Dissatisfied State From Which We Struggle To Free Ourselves And Pass Into The State Of Belief; While The Latter Is A Calm And Satisfactory State Which We Do Not Wish To Avoid, Or To Change To A Belief In Anything Else.