Mathematics Is The Queen Of

My Young Friend, I Wish That Science Would Intoxicate You As Much As Our Good Göttingen Beer! Upon Seeing A Student Staggering Down A Street.

Mathematics Is Concerned Only With The Enumeration And Comparison Of Relations.

By Explanation The Scientist Understands Nothing Except The Reduction To The Least And Simplest Basic Laws Possible, Beyond Which He Cannot Go, But Must Plainly Demand Them; From Them However He Deduces The Phenomena Absolutely Completely As Necessary.

I Am Coming More And More To The Conviction That The Necessity Of Our Geometry Cannot Be Demonstrated, At Least Neither By, Nor For, The Human Intellect. . . Geometry Should Be Ranked, Not With Arithmetic, Which Is Purely Aprioristic, But With Mechanics.

To Such Idle Talk It Might Further Be Added: That Whenever A Certain Exclusive Occupation Is Coupled With Specific Shortcomings, It Is Likewise Almost Certainly Divorced From Certain Other Shortcomings.