[Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a mathematical department…

- Julian Coolidge

Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The pr…

- Julian Coolidge

The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves

- Julian Coolidge

But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are…

- Julian Coolidge

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.

- Julian Coolidge