I Finally Reached The Conclusion That Mathematics

As Years Passed Away I Have Formed The Habit Of Looking Back Upon That Former Self As Upon Another Person, The Remembrance Of Whose Emotions Has Been A Solace In Adversity And Added Zest To The Enjoyment Of Prosperity.

If My Impressions Are Correct, Our Educational Planing Mill Cuts Down All The Knots Of Genius, And Reduces The Best Of The Men Who Go Through It To Much The Same Standard.

The Demonstration That No Possible Combination Of Known Substances, Known Forms Of Machinery And Known Forms Of Force, Can Be United In A Practical Machine By Which Men Shall Fly Along Distances Through The Air, Seems To The Writer As Complete As It Is Possible For The Demonstration To Be.

So Far As The Economic Condition Of Society And The General Mode Of Living And Thinking Were Concerned, I Might Claim To Have Lived In The Time Of The American Revolution.

Ten Decimal Places Of π Are Sufficient To Give The Circumference Of The Earth To A Fraction Of An Inch, And Thirty Decimal Places Would Give The Circumference Of The Visible Universe To A Quantity Imperceptible To The Most Powerful Microscope.