Famous quotes containing the words mathematical and/or ideas:
“What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.”
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)
“Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young,
And always keep us so.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)