Claude Fayette Bragdon quotes

Claude Fayette Bragdon quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.”
-- Claude Fayette Bragdon

Source : Claude Fayette Bragdon (2005). “Architecture and Democracy”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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“But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.”
“"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."”
“The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered.”
“The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.”
“Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.”
“With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.”
“One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.”
“Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.”

Source : 'Ode upon a Copy of Verses of My Lord Broghill's' (1663)
“We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.”
“The only true disability is a crushed spirit”

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