Quotes by Auden, W. H.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself >>

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more mone >>

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor p >>

Quotations about Mathematics

In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if w >>

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which >>

It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels >>

How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.

Auden, W. H.