Normal/mathematics

Famous quotes containing the words normal and/or mathematics:

    “Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don’t happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data ... and yet we don’t understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)