CJ on Mathematics and Science

When controversies arise, there will be no more need of disputation between two philosophers than between two accountants. For it will suffice to take their pens in their hands, to sit down to their counting tables, and to say to each other: Let us calculate. Leibniz, The Art of Discovery (1685)

For when propositions are denied, there is an end

of them, but if they bee allowed, it requireth a

new worke. The Essais of Sr. Francis Bacon, London, 1612

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwell

Nothing is created by coincidence, rather there is reason and necessity for everything. Leukippus, 5th Century BC.

De Omnibus Dubitandum

Science advances one funeral at a time.

Max Planck