“ Réduites à des théories générales, les mathématiques seraient une belle forme sans contenu. Reduced to general theories, mathematics would be a beautiful form without content.” — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students. — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have never been in full agreement on their science, though it is said to be the science of self-evident verities -- absolute, indisputable… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
“ Réduites à des théories générales, les mathématiques seraient une belle forme sans contenu. Reduced to general theories, mathematics would be a beautiful form… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
