Share this sentence
— Immanuel Kant"The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience"
Discover more quotes
Previous Quote
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these rare minds on such work is like running a steam engine by burning diamonds.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
Next Quote
In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Loading recommended content...