It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows…

It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough…

— Augustus De Morgan

“Indeed every mathematician knows that a proof has not been “understood” if one has done nothing more than verify step by step the correctness…

— Anonymous

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

— Albert Einstein

“There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.”

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn.

— Marcel Duchamp

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies…

— David Cronenberg

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

— Pablo Picasso

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

— Cyril Connolly

Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a…

— Gianni Vattimo

Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared…

— Isak Dinesen

Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity.

— Stephen Batchelor

When you think about what Homo sapiens are about, you almost feel that we are replacing ourselves. We won't be able to breathe and…

— Irvine Welsh

The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple…

— Lech Walesa

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

— Henry James Sumner Maine