Mathematics May Be Defined As

The Acquisition Of The Most Elementary Truth Does Not Devolve Upon The Individual Alone: It Is Pre-effected In The Development Of The Race.

Strange As It May Sound, The Power Of Mathematics Rests On Its Evasion Of All Unnecessary Thought And On Its Wonderful Saving Of Mental Operations.

If Our Dreams Were More Regular, More Connected, More Stable, They Would Also Have More Practical Importance For Us.

Many An Article That I Myself Penned Twenty Years Ago Impresses Me Now As Something Quite Foreign To Myself.

All This, The Positive And Physical Essence Of Mechanics, Which Makes Its Chief And Highest Interest For A Student Of Nature, Is In Existing Treatises Completely Buried And Concealed Beneath A Mass Of Technical Considerations.