Reflection/mathematics

Famous quotes containing the words reflection and/or mathematics:

    The Americans ... have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.
    W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

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