Steve Stuart

“Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.”
― G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

“...our brains are minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.”
― Valentino Braitenberg, Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology

“The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.”
― Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“credit is something that should be given to others. If you are in a position to give credit to yourself, then you do not need it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon