Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
MathematicsDetachmentUniversal TruthsSpinoza's PhilosophyNature I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
ReasoningMathematicsCapability I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
MathematicsUncertaintyTruthAbstraction Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
ExcellenceMathematicsPoetryJoy The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
MathematicsRealityCertaintyUncertaintyEpistemology As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
MathematicsNecessityUniversal LawsLogicConformity Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
MusicStorytellingCreativityMathematicsSymmetry Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
