ernest (Ellen)

“a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life”
― G.H. Hardy

“Thoughts drawn on the string
of endless questioning”
― Mario Luzi, In the Dark Body of Metamorphosis and Other Poems.

“Is then mathematics a collection of diamonds hidden in the depths of the universe and gradually unearthed, or is it a collection of synthetic stones manufactured by man, yet so brilliant nevertheless that they bedazzle those mathematicians who are already partially blinded by pride in their own creations?”
― Morris Kline

“Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile" (Life is short, [the] craft long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult)”
― Hippocrates