Augustin Louis Cauchy Quotes

#1. Your trouble is, you want to be happy all the time. You're fifty years old -- haven't you realized yet that most of the time most of us just trudge through life? Happy days are few and far between.

Sue Townsend

#2. Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words.]

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

#3. With faith, there are no questions; without faith, there are no answers.

Yisroel Meir Ha-Cohen

#4. As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

#5. to put on femininity with a vengeance suggests the power of taking it off.

Helene A. Shugart

#6. The very wish to be right, down to its subtlest form of logical reflection, is an expression of the spirit of self-preservation which philosophy is precisely concerned to break down.

Theodor W. Adorno

#7. Residues arise ... naturally in several branches of analysis ... Their consideration provides simple and easy-to-use methods, which are applicable to a large number of diverse questions, and some new results ...

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

#8. [I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.

G.H. Hardy

#9. My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

Stand Watie

#10. I shall never flaunt the little learning that I have acquired through the care and help my father has given me. If I have learned anything, it is only because he took care to teach me. Had he not taken upon himself the trouble of instructing me, I would be as ignorant as many other children.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

#11. I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascal ... like all great astronomers mathematicians of the past.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

#12. It is enough to remember the fact of the happiness.

Peter Cameron

#13. Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man
the most guilty.

Franz Kafka