Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes About Math

• Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Math, Principles, Lovers

• A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Work, Math, Hands

• Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Time, Math, Mind

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