Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related t….

My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand t….

Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from the known….

But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved..

All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another, the power of thoug….

It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with his heifer; you must ….

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid..