David Eugene Smith quotes

“One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iÏ€ = -1 expressed a world of thought, of truth, of poetry, and of the religious spirit "God eternally geometrizes."”
-- David Eugene Smith

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“What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge of imagination-of imagination which broke the roadway through the forest in order that cold logic might follow.”
-- David Eugene Smith

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“What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?”
-- David Eugene Smith

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“Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.”

“A divided heart loses both worlds.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”

“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”

“I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.”

“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”

“envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.”

Source : Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”

“Great masters merit emulation, not worship.”

“I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me.”

“Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.”