The mathematician is like a man travelling through a strange country. Roads branch out in all directions. He knows the point of the compass towards which he is aiming, and selects road after road as it promises to lead him thither.


The Science of Thought, Second Book (p. 104), De Wolfe, Fiske & Co. 1890

Charles Carroll Everett Quotes

The mathematician is like a man travelling through a strange country. Roads branch out in all directions. He knows the point of the compass towards...

The mathematician is like a man travelling through a strange country. Roads branch out in all directions. He knows the point of the compass towards...

The mathematician is like a man travelling through a strange country. Roads branch out in all directions. He knows the point of the compass towards...

The mathematician is like a man travelling through a strange country. Roads branch out in all directions. He knows the point of the compass towards...