Source: The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking: Essays and Addresses, p. 268
Simon Stevin (1548–1620) Flemish scientist, mathematician and military engineer
Géographie, in Les Oeuvres Mathématiques de Simon Stevin de Bruges (1634) ed. Girard, p. 109, as quoted by Jacob Klein]], Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra (1968)
James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
Source: The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 366)
“Where children are, there is a golden age.”
Novalis book Blüthenstaub
Fragment No. 97
Blüthenstaub (1798)
“Reality is never a golden age.”
Joan Robinson (1903–1983) English economist
Source: Economic Heresies (1971), Chapter III, Interest and Profit, p. 47
“The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Principles of Mathematics (1903), Ch. I: Definition of Pure Mathematics, p. 5
1900s
Context: The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists in the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.
“Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.”
Michael Chabon book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
“A golden age, Londa calls it. She hopes it will return.”
James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
“Golden ages rarely return,” I said “especially if they never existed.”
Source: The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 366)
“Music's golden tongue
Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.”
John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes
Stanza 3
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes
“We live in a golden age of ignorance, and Trump and Brexit are part of that.”
Robert N. Proctor (1954) American historian
Robert N. Proctor, quotes in: Tim Harford, " The problem with facts https://www.ft.com/content/eef2e2f8-0383-11e7-ace0-1ce02ef0def9," FT Magazine, March 9, 2017
“The truly golden age of the people does not lie in the past, but in the future.”
D. N. Jha (1940) Indian historian
quoted from Arun Shourie (2014) Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud. HarperCollin
