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Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
I am ill at these numbers.
Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
Tyndall declared that he saw in Matter the promise and potency of all forms of life, and with his Irish graphic lucidity made a picture of a world of magnetic atoms, each atom with a positive and a negative pole, arranging itself by attraction and repulsion in orderly crystalline structure. Such a picture is dangerously fascinating to thinkers oppressed by the bloody disorders of the living world. Craving for purer subjects of thought, they find in the contemplation of crystals and magnets a happiness more dramatic and less childish than the happiness found by mathematicians in abstract numbers, because they see in the crystals beauty and movement without the corrupting appetites of fleshly vitality.
Preface to Back to Methuselah.
Shaw, J. B.
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
Simmons, G. F.
Mathematical rigor is like clothing; in its style it ought to suit the occasion, and it diminishes comfort and restrains freedom of movement if it is either too loose or too tight.
In The Mathematical Intelligencer, v. 13, no. 1, Winter 1991.
Slaught, H.E.
Smith, Adam
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
Smith, David Eugene
One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^(i*pi) = -1 expressed a world of thought, of truth, of poetry, and of the religious spirit "God eternally geometrizes."
Smith, Henry John Stephen (1826 - 1883)
[His toast:]