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Carroll, Lewis What I tell you three times is true. The Hunting of the Snark.
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Carroll, Lewis ‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master – that’s all.’ Through the Looking Glass.
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Cauchy, Augustin-Louis (1789 – 1857) Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words (?)] In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Revisted, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1971.
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Cayley, Arthur As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.
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Cayley, Arthur Projective geometry is all geometry. In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.
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Chebyshev To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls. In G. Simmons, Calculus Gems, New York: Mcgraw Hill, Inc., 1992, page 198.
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Chekov, Anton (1860 – 1904) There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. In V. P. Ponomarev Mysli o nauke Kishinev, 1973.
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Chesterton, G. K. (1874 – 1936) Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. Orthodoxy ch. 2.
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Christie, Agatha I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours I found it quite enthralling. An Autobiography.
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Christie, Agatha ‘I think you’re begging the question,’ said Haydock, ‘and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!’ The Mirror Crack’d. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1962.
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Churchill, Sir Winston Spencer (1874-1965) I had a feeling once about Mathematics – that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me – the Byss and Abyss. I saw – as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor’s Show – a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go. In H. Eves Return to Mathematical Circles, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1988.
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Churchman, C. W. The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems. In J.E. Littlewood A Mathematician’s Miscellany. Methuen and Co., Ltd. 1953.
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C’ine, Louis-Ferdinand (1894 – 1961) Entre le p’is et les math’atiques… il n’existe rien. Rien! C’est le vide. Voyage au bout de la nuit. Paris: Gallimard.
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Circles to square and cubes to double would give a man excessive trouble.- Matthew Prior
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Cocteau The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
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Cogito, Ergo Sum. I think, therefore I am.- Descartes
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) …from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae. The Theory of Life.
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Comte, Auguste (1798-1857) C’este donc par l”ude des math’atiques, et seulement par elle, que l’on peut se faire une id’ juste et approfondie de ce que c’est qu’une science. Quoted by T. H. Huxley in Fortnightly Review, Vol. II, N.S. 5.
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Conrad, Joseph Don’t talk to me of your Archimedes’ lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. Preface to A Personal Record.
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Coolidge, Julian Lowell (1873 – 1954) [Upon proving that the best betting strategy for ‘Gambler’s Ruin’ was to bet all on the first trial.] It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool. In H. Eves Return to Mathematical Circles, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1988.
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