Edward G. Begle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

  • There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

  • Why do you have to go and make Things so complicated...

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

  • ... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

  • We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best of all possible mathematics will be created out of physicists' attempts to describe nature.

  • On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

  • I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.

  • Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

  • I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

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