QUOTES BY GREAT MATHEMATICIANS

• Tolstoy: "Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it."
• Carl Friedrich Gauss: "I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."
• Carl Friedrich Gauss: "Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.
• Kepler: "Where there is matter, there is geometry."
• Pascal: "It is not certain that everything is uncertain."
• Newton: "If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants."
• Archimedes: "Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth."
• Descartes: "Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
•  Neumann: "If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.