Mathematics Is The Queen Of

That This Subject [of Imaginary Magnitudes] Has Hitherto Been Considered From The Wrong Point Of View And Surrounded By A Mysterious Obscurity, Is To Be Attributed Largely To An Ill-adapted Notation. If, For Example, +1, -1, And The Square Root Of -1 Had Been Called Direct, Inverse And Lateral Units, Instead Of Positive, Negative And Imaginary (or Even Impossible), Such An Obscurity Would Have Been Out Of The Question.

Mathematics Is Concerned Only With The Enumeration And Comparison Of Relations.

You Know That I Write Slowly. This Is Chiefly Because I Am Never Satisfied Until I Have Said As Much As Possible In A Few Words, And Writing Briefly Takes Far More Time Than Writing At Length.

His Second Motto: Thou, Nature, Art My Goddess; To Thy Laws My Services Are Bound.

It Is Not Knowledge, But The Act Of Learning, Not Possession But The Act Of Getting There, Which Grants The Greatest Enjoyment.