"For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?"

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Source : "What is Mathematics?" by Richard Courant, (p. xix), 1941.

Richard Courant

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“I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.”
“People should learn that you cannot dwell in your past. One who dwells in the past hurts not only himself, but also the people around him.”
“I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.”
“Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole now admired and respected him deeply... His unscrupulous past and cynical opportunism were being largely forgotten or forgiven. He was gradually becoming recognized not only as the prophet of a new Conservatism, at once compassionate at home and positive abroad, but as a great statesmen whom the Queen did well to honour. Power had brought responsibility. By 1878 the transformation in public attitudes towards Disraeli was complete.”
“You know you're tired when you fall asleep in the shower.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 04, 2014
“On the new earth heaven we will have perfect bodies, resistant to any ailment. Our new bodies will continue on forever, without missing a beat.”
“When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.”
“One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.”

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