Mathematics Is The Art Of

All That Is Not Thought Is Pure Nothingness; Since We Can Think Only Thoughts, And All The Words We Use To Speak Of Things Can Express Only Thoughts, To Say There Is Something Other Than Thought Is Therefore An Affirmation Which Can Have No Meaning.

Thus, Be It Understood, To Demonstrate A Theorem, It Is Neither Necessary Nor Even Advantageous To Know What It Means.

One Would Have To Have Completely Forgotten The History Of Science So As To Not Remember That The Desire To Know Nature Has Had The Most Constant And The Happiest Influence On The Development Of Mathematics.

One Geometry Cannot Be More True Than Another; It Can Only Be More Convenient.

It Is By Logic That We Prove, But By Intuition That We Discover. To Know How To Criticize Is Good, To Know How To Create Is Better.