Constant/mathematics

Famous quotes containing the words constant and/or mathematics:

“But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constant and imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
—John Adams (1735–1826)