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Voltaire (1694-1778) He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain. In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.
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Voltaire (1694-1778) There are no sects in geometry. W. H. Auden and L. Kronenberger (eds.) The Viking Book of Aphorisms, New York: Viking Press, 1962.
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Voltaire (1694-1778) Vous avez trouve par de long ennuis Ce que Newton trouva sans sortir de chez lui. [Written to La Condamine after his measurement of the equator.] In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.
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von Neumann, Johann (1903 – 1957) In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them. In G. Zukav The Dancing Wu Li Masters.
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Walton, Izaak Angling may be said to be so like mathematics that it can never be fully learned. The Compleat Angler, 1653.
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Warner, Sylvia Townsend Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for matter there is always the moral to fall back upon. Comparisons too may be drawn, leading cases cited, types and antetypes analysed and anecdotes introduced. Except for Archimedes mathematics is singularly naked of anecdotes. Mr. Fortune’s Maggot.
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Warren, Robert Penn (1905-) What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There’s never need to fear Violence of the poor world’s abstract storm. Lullaby in Encounter, 1957.
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Weil, Andre (1906 -1998) Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced … the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously… this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work… The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician.
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Weil, Andre (1906- 1998) God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it. In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Adieu, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1977.
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Weil, Simone (1909 – 1943) Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively. W.H. Auden and L. Kronenberger The Viking Book of Aphorisms, New York: Viking Press, 1966.
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West, Nathanael Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language. Miss Lonelyhearts.
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Weyl, Hermann (1885 – 1955) Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements of mathematics in the last 50 years. [Said in 1950] The American Mathematical Monthly, v. 100. p. 93.
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Weyl, Hermann (1885-1955) The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and set up his axioms as he pleases. But the question is will he get his fellow mathematician interested in the constructs of his imagination. We cannot help the feeling that certain mathematical structures which have evolved through the combined efforts of the mathematical community bear the stamp of a necessity not affected by the accidents of their historical birth. Everybody who looks at the spectacle of modern algebra will be struck by this complementarity of freedom and necessity.
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What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things ?- Anonymous
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Wherever there is number, there is beauty.- Proclus
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Whewell Nobody since Newton has been able to use geometrical methods to the same extent for the like purposes; and as we read the Principia we feel as when we are in an ancient armoury where the weapons are of gigantic size; and as we look at them we marvel what manner of man he was who could use as a weapon what we can scarcely lift as a burden. In E. N. Da C. Andrade ‘Isaac Newton’ in J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.
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Whitehead, Alfred North (1861 – 1947) War can protect; it cannot create. W.H. Auden and L. Kronenberger The Viking Book of Aphorisms, New York: Viking Press, 1966.
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Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figure, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
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Wiener, Norbert (1894 – 1964) A professor is one who can speak on any subject — for precisely fifty minutes.
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Wiener, Norbert (1894-1964) The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one’s blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one’s best moments that count and not one’s worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician’s reputation. Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth.
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