Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.
With me everything turns into mathematics.
Loci: Convergence
Mathematical Quotations
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Caballero, James
I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors.
Georg Cantor
I place myself in a certain opposition to widespread views on the nature of the mathematical infinite.
Cardano, Girolamo (1501 - 1576)
To throw in a fair game at Hazards only three-spots, when something great is at stake, or some business is the hazard, is a natural occurrence and deserves to be so deemed; and even when they come up the same way for a second time if the throw be repeated. If the third and fourth plays are the same, surely there is occasion for suspicion on the part of a prudent man.
Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Carlyle, Thomas (1795 - 1881)
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
Carmichael, R. D.
A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.
Carroll, Lewis
"When I use a word,"
Humpty Dumpty said,
in a rather scornful
tone, "it means just
what I choose it to
mean - neither more
nor less."
"The
question is," said
Alice, "whether you
can make words mean
so many different
things."
"The
question is," said
Humpty Dumpty,
"which is to be
master - that's
all."
Carroll, Lewis
"It's very good
jam,"
said the Queen.
"Well, I don't
want any to-day, at
any rate."
"You
couldn't have it if
you did want it,"
the Queen said. "The
rule is jam tomorrow
and jam yesterday
but never jam
to-day."
"It
must come sometimes
to 'jam to-day,'"
Alice objected.
"No it can't,"
said the Queen.
"It's jam every
other day; to-day
isn't any other day,
you know."
"I
don't understand
you," said Alice.
"It's dreadfully
confusing."
Carroll, Lewis
"Then you should say
what you mean," the
March Hare went
on.
"I do,"
Alice hastily
replied; "at least I
mean what I say,
that's the same
thing, you know."
"Not the same
thing a bit!" said
the Hatter. "Why,
you might just as
well say that 'I see
what I eat' is the
same thing as 'I eat
what I see!'"
Carroll, Lewis
Alice laughed:
"There's no use
trying," she said;
"one can't believe
impossible
things."
"I
daresay you haven't
had much practice,"
said the Queen.
"When I was younger,
I always did it for
half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I've
believed as many as
six impossible
things before
breakfast."
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