Robert Daniel Carmichael - The Logic of Discovery (1930)

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Mathematics, by exhibiting a body of truth which can live through millenniums without needed connections, and at the same time can grow in magnitude and range and interest, has given the human spirit new ground for believing in itself and for rejoicing in its power of consistent thought.

Robert Daniel Carmichael

Mathematics and poetry lie, if not on, at least not far from the extremes, the one of systematic and the other of unsystematic thought, and thus are about as far removed as possible one from the other.

Robert Daniel Carmichael

He who discovers a fact or makes known a new law or adds a novel beauty to truth in any way makes every one of us his debtor. How beautiful upon the highway are the feet of him who comes bringing in his hands the gift of a new truth to mankind.

Robert Daniel Carmichael