There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics… We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
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The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.