The Mind Resorts To Reason

[adams] Supposed That, Except Musicians, Everyone Thought Beethoven A Bore, As Every One Except Mathematicians Thought Mathematics A Bore.

[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.

All Taxation Is An Evil, But Heavy Taxes, Indiscriminately Levied On Every Everything Are One Of The Greatest Curses That Can Afflict A People

In Practice, Such Trifles As Contradictions In Principle Are Easily Set Aside; The Faculty Of Ignoring Them Makes The Practical Man.

All Experience Is An Arch, To Build Upon.