Books Quote by Alfred de Vigny

If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming…

— Terry Eagleton

If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

— John Von Neumann

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

— Antonia Fraser

In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

— Hermann Hankel

I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations, that mathematical ideas…

— John Von Neumann

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

— Max Black

“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity…

— G. Arnell Williams

It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed…

— Alfred Korzybski

“The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds…

— Hermann Hankel

A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war,…

— Eric Temple Bell

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

— Will Durant