“Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.” GivingBelieveI BelieveOpinionSeriousMathematicsI Believe InChemistryQualifiedSerious ThingsPolka Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any science which interprets experience on a higher than purely descriptive level.” FactsNaturalLevelsOpinionHigherMathematicsCharacteristicsPeculiarNatural Science Book:The Neumann Compendium Source: The Neumann Compendium