"Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The present author humbly confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art."

--

Source : Julian Lowell Coolidge (2004). “A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves”, p.10, Courier Corporation

Julian Coolidge

#Art Quotes #Science Quotes #Consistency Quotes

“Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.”
“I'm not scared at all... Of the cracks in the crystal ball.”
“It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.”
“I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.”
“Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thing and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic achievement.”
“Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.”
“Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.”
“There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.”

You may also like:

David Eugene Smith
Drew Gilpin Faust
Historian
Eleanor Roosevelt
Former First Lady of the United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
Henry George
Writer
Howard Whitley Eves
Mathematician
Raymond Louis Wilder
Mathematician
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
William Fogg Osgood
Mathematician