Hermite Quotes & Sayings

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Good threat," the woman chuckled. "Here's mine: you've got about twenty minutes to hightail it over to Venetian before your brother becomes a memory wrote in pink mist. Toodles. — Daniel Younger

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics. — Charles Hermite

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years. — Charles Hermite

I shall risk nothing on an attempt to prove the transcendence of p. If others undertake this enterprise, no one will be happier than I in their success. But believe me, it will not fail to cost them some effort. — Charles Hermite

It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this? — William P. Young

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives. — Charles Hermite

Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else. — Mason Cooley

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives. — Charles Hermite

I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives. — Charles Hermite

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master. — Charles Hermite

I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside of us, with the same character of necessity as the things of objective reality, and we meet them or discover them, and study them, as do the physicists, the chemists and the zoologists. — Charles Hermite

In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century (Hermite, 1822-1901) could say without exaggeration, 'Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.' Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, 'By studying the masters, not the pupils. — Eric Temple Bell

Don't Feel Yourself To Be Alone Because GOD is always with you. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation. — Charles Hermite

Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures. — Henri Poincare

That's the problem with this never-ending centipede of lemmings, Beck. You know they're all pussies, each and every one of 'em. They buy these books to get scared because their lives are too easy. How pathetic is that? — Caroline Kepnes