Moses Aaron Richardson famous quotes

Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.
-- Moses Aaron Richardson

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I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mothers advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.