“By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in great tension, or as a method of passing the time. A reliable witness is Cicero, when he says (De Oratore, 2): 'men who are accustomed to hard daily toil, when by reason of the weather they are kept from their work, betake themselves to playing with a ball, or with knucklebones or with dice, or they may also contrive for themselves some new game at their leisure.'” MenMindMayHardReasonPlayLightGamesChancePleasureLaborBallsMethodPassingPassingsWeatherWitnessTensionRelaxLeisureToilAccustomedTurmoilDice Book:The Book on Games of Chance: The 16th-Century Treatise on Probability Source: The Book on Games of Chance: The 16th-Century Treatise on Probability
“Mathematics, however, is, as it were, its own explanation; this, although it may seem hard to accept, is nevertheless true, for the recognition that a fact is so is the cause upon which we base the proof.” MayHardFactsSeemsCausesAcceptingMathematicsProofRecognitionExplanationNeverthelessMathematics By Mathematicians Author:Gerolamo Cardano
