It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious.

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.

Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious.