How Is Error Possible In Mathematics?

Talk With M. Hermite. He Never Evokes A Concrete Image, Yet You Soon Perceive That The More Abstract Entities Are To Him Like Living Creatures.

Thought Is Only A Flash Between Two Long Nights, But This Flash Is Everything.

Mathematics Is The Art Of Giving The Same Name To Different Things.

Absolute Space, That Is To Say, The Mark To Which It Would Be Necessary To Refer The Earth To Know Whether It Really Moves, Has No Objective Existence.... The Two Propositions: "the Earth Turns Round" And "it Is More Convenient To Suppose The Earth Turns Round" Have The Same Meaning; There Is Nothing More In The One Than In The Other.

A Scientist Worthy Of His Name, About All A Mathematician, Experiences In His Work The Same Impression As An Artist; His Pleasure Is As Great And Of The Same Nature.