Need We Add That Mathematicians Themselves Are

Tolstoi Explains Somewhere In His Writings Why, In His Opinion, “science For Science's Sake” Is An Absurd Conception. We Cannot Know All The Facts, Since They Are Practically Infinite In Number. We Must Make A Selection. Is It Not Better To Be Guided By Utility, By Our Practical, And More Especially Our Moral, Necessities?

If We Ought Not To Fear Mortal Truth, Still Less Should We Dread Scientific Truth. In The First Place It Can Not Conflict With Ethics? But If Science Is Feared, It Is Above All Because It Can Give No Happiness? Man, Then, Can Not Be Happy Through Science But Today He Can Much Less Be Happy Without It.

It Is The Simple Hypotheses Of Which One Must Be Most Wary; Because These Are The Ones That Have The Most Chances Of Passing Unnoticed.

There Are No Solved Problems; There Are Only Problems That Are More Or Less Solved.

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.