Charles Darwin Quotes About Mathematics

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  • Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

  • I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.

  • In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

    Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

    Quoted in John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).
  • I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.

    Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.101, NYU Press
  • Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

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