Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.
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Keith Devlin, as quoted in Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula : Cures Many Mathematical Ills (2006) ISBN 978-0691118222Leonhard Euler
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Painting has nothing to do with thinking, because in painting thinking is painting. Thinking is language record-keeping and has to take place before and after. Einstein did not think when he was calculating: he calculated producing the next equation in reaction to the one that went before just as in painting one form is a response to another and so on."
Gerhard Richter
One of the most frequently mentioned equations was Euler's equation, Respondents called it "the most profound mathematical statement ever written"; "uncanny and sublime"; "filled with cosmic beauty"; and "mind-blowing". Another asked: "What could be more mystical than an imaginary number interacting with real numbers to produce nothing?" The equation contains nine basic concepts of mathematics once and only once in a single expression. These are: e (the base of natural logarithms); the exponent operation; ?; plus (or minus, depending on how you write it); multiplication; imaginary numbers; equals; one; and zero.
Leonhard Euler
To increase his suffering he now accused her, asserting that she didn't love him, and that is always a dangerous thing to say: If one wants somebody to love one, one should not ask her to consider whether she "really": does. When all is said, we "really" do very few things. If one probes very deeply one realizes that the weight never reaches the bottom, and then one grows afraid of the depths inside one. But it is not until one understands that another name for deep is emptiness that one becomes really afraid.
Stig Dagerman
I rather feel that painting is a form of drawing and the painting that I like has a form of drawing to it. I dont see how it could be disassociated from the nature of drawing.. ..I find in many cases a drawing has been the subject of the painting that would be a preliminary stage to that particular painting.. ..the painting can develop something that is not at all related to the drawing and have no particular mood about it at all; its just a cool kind of reality that has a series of involvements within it; and the pure excitement of those things happening within this form is enough for that particular panting..
Franz Kline
The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin-deep saying.
Herbert Spencer
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