“did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered.”

And all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

These … tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences.

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other.

And have even substituted extensive theories for the isolated propositions of Fermat.

It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success.

Are one of the most beautiful monuments ever erected to science.

But there are several proofs which have resisted their efforts.

In truth, Messrs Euler and Lagrange, who have not disdained this kind of research, have proved most of these theorems.

I understand now, in a way I never did before, the colossal scale of the world. I found patience and fortitude that I didn’t know I had. I discovered an America that millions of people scarcely know exists. I made a friend. I came home.

I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.

Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.

I really discovered the almost transcending power of music. And I think that is why I am so into it.

The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more we can; in religion, to dominate (or rule over) on the greatest number of people we can; whereas the forming of the character.

Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.

The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.