Pierre Boutroux quotes

Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.
-- Pierre Boutroux

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There are men that teach best by not teaching at all.

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

What's my favourite food? One you order out.

In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.