Favourite Quotations & Bon Mots

[Angrboda]

"I bought a new Japanese car. I turned on the radio... I don't understand a word they're saying."
— Rodney Dangerfield

"It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician."
— Augustus De Morgan

"Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician."
— Gottlob Frege

"He is very intelligent but he is not a mathematician: this as you know is a great defect."
— Blaise Pascal in a letter to Pierre de Fermat

"To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician."
— Bertrand Russell

"Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom;
elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism."
— Aldous Huxley, "Bruno Rontini" in Time Must Have A Stop (1944)