Occupation: Mathematician Birth: February 7, 1877 Death: December 1, 1947
Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds..
... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly coun….
If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by ….
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it ….