var sayings = [ ['Aristotle', 'The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.'], ['Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington', 'Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.'], ['Charles R. Darwin', 'A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn\'t there.'], ['Robert A. Heinlein', 'Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house.'], ['Jules Henri Poincare', 'Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.'], ['Cokie Roberts', 'As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.'], ['Gauss, Karl Friedrich', 'If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.'], ['Gauss, Karl Friedrich', 'I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.'], ['Gauss, Karl Friedrich', 'I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.'], ['Descartes, René', 'Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.'], ['Hilbert, David', 'Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.'], ['Hilbert, David', 'The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.'], ['Proclus Diadochus', 'This therefore is Mathematics, she reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul; she gives life to her own discoveries; she awakens the mind and purifies the intellect; she brings light to our intrinsic ideas; she abolishes oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth.'], ['Henry John Stephen Smith', 'Mathematics: may it never be of any use to anyone!'], ['Albert Einstein', 'So far as laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain. And so far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.'], ['Juris Harmanis', 'There is no doubt that the results about what can and cannot be effectively computed or formalized in mathematics have had a profound influence on mathematics, and, even more broadly, they have influenced our view of our scientific work.'], ['C.H. Langford', 'Logic, Padoa says, is not in a particularly fortunate position. On the one hand, philosophers prefer to speak of it without using it, while on the other hand mathematicians prefer to use it without speaking of it and even without desiring to hear it spoken of'], ['Albert Einstein', 'I have no special talents. I am only pasionately curious.'], ['Jules Henri Poincare', 'The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful.'], ['Sir Isaac Newton', 'I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.'], ['Simeon Poisson', 'Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.'], ['Ibn Khaldun', 'Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one\'s mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.'], ['David Hilbert', 'To infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.'], ['Thales', 'Know Thyself'], ['Gottfried Willhelm von Leibniz', 'Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion, more interesting than the inventions themselves.'], ['Gottfried Willhelm von Leibniz', 'Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time of Newton, what he has done is much the better half.'], ['Emile Lemoine', 'A mathematical truth is neither simple nor complicated in itself, it is.'], ['John Locke', 'Logic is the anatomy of thought.'], ['Eric Bell Temple', '\'Obvious\' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.'], ['Prof. Allen Hatcher', 'Obviously this is weak chalk...or else I\'m a very strong mathematician.'], ['Rene Decartes', 'Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.'], ['Mark Twain', 'Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.'], ['Mark Twain', 'It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.'], ['Henry Wadsworth Longfellow', 'It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.'], ['Eleanor Roosevelt', 'Learn from the mistakes of others. You can\'t live long enough to make them all yourself.'], ['Stephen Hawking', 'It matters if you just don\'t give up.'], ['Bertrand Russell', 'Most people would rather die than think. In fact, they do.'], ['Descartes, Renê', 'Common sense is of all the things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that even those most difficult to please in other matters usually do not desire more of it than they already possess.'], ['Descartes, Renê', '...one can never conceive a thing and render it his own so well as when one learns it from another, as when one discovers it oneself.'], ['Galileo', 'It still moves.'], ['Khant', 'Dare To Know'], ['Decartes, Renê', 'I think, therefore I am.'] ]; var randomNum = Math.floor(Math.random()*sayings.length); document.write('"' + sayings[randomNum][1] + '", ' + sayings[randomNum][0]);