Math

‘In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race.’― Tobias Danzig, Number: The Language of Science

‘The point about zero is that we don’t need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.’― Alfred North…

‘Zeno was concerned with three problems. These are the problems of the infinitesimal, the infinite and continuity. From his day to our own, the finest intellects of each generation in turn attacked these problems, but achieved, broadly speaking, nothing.’― Bertrand Russell

‘Today for every competent expert on the side of the prophets there is an equally competent and opposite expert against them. If there is stupidity anywhere it is so evenly distributed that is has ceased to be a mark of distinction.’― Eric Temple Bell

‘Pure Mathematics was discovered by Boole in a work which he called The Laws of Thought.’― Bertrand Russell