Pierre de Fermat

"People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at t…"

"When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the small spa…"

"A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness' sake. Just as in a family one man is ap…"

"There is a fundamental confusion between the notion of the older 'semantics' as connected with a theory of …"

"We usually say that one must first understand simpler things. But what if feelings and viewpoints are the s…"

"Science should be distinguished from technique and its scientific instrumentation, technology. Science is p…"