Unremitting Quotes (1 quote)
The more I meditate on the principles of the theory of functions—and I do this unremittingly the stronger becomes my conviction that the foundations upon which these must be built are the truths of Algebra…
From Letter (3 Oct 1875), to Professor Schwartz. As quoted and translated in Ernst Hairer and Gerhard Wanner, Analysis by Its History (2008), 177. From the original German in Mathematische Werke (1875, 1895), Vol. 2, 235, “Je mehr ich über die Principien der Functionentheorie nachdenke—und ich thue dies unablässig—, um so fester wird meine Überzeugung, dass diese auf dem Fundamente algebraischer Wahrheiten aufgebaut werden muss…”
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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