Book Quote by J. Arthur Thomson

“more books more knowledge”

— Hawa Snz Tyler Eisen

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any…

— Samuel Johnson

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

— William Shenstone

Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being…

— Ernest Nagel

“But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The wonderful thing about knowledge is that it is genuinely limitless. There is not even a theoretical possibility of exhausting the supply of ideas,…

— Matt Ridley

It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history…

— Jostein Gaarder

“In various ways, methods of approaching the mathematician's ideal were sought, and the resulting suggestions were the source of much that was mistaken in…

— Bertrand Russell

“Even if all knowledge could be found in books, where it is mixed in with so many useless things and confusingly heaped in such…

— René Descartes

“The applications of knowledge, especially mathematics, reveal the unity of all knowledge. In a new situation almost anything and everything you ever learned might…

— Richard Hamming

“The thirteenth-century philosopher Roger Bacon claimed that “nobody can obtain to proficiency in the science of mathematics by the method hitherto known unless he…

— Joshua Foer