“For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.” IfsHumansArtKnownRiskDependsGeniusMathematicsPhysicsManifestationVocationFrustratingExtinctionMundaneSublimity Author:Charles Krauthammer
“In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.” MomentsChanceDependsMathematicsPhysics Author:Stanislaw Ulam
“Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and I do not understand why you expect a mathematician to produce it, rather than anyone else, for the solution is based on reason alone, and its discovery does not depend on any mathematical principle.” LittlesDoeReasonProblemPrinciplesProduceTypeDependsBearsSolutionsDiscoveryMathematicsNobleMathematicalBridgesMathematicianEuler Author:Leonhard Euler