“A trembling and some laughter, / a squirt of pee, a spit, / whispers of the heart, / a smell, / the drift to sleep, / pursuit by Gods, / exposure of the bum, / mathematics …”
"The Schultz Song"
M is for Man, Music, and Mozart
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“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever”
Query XVIII (1782); for more quotes from this document see: Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-1785)
1780s, Notes on the State of Virginia
Context: In a warm climate, no man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him. This is so true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!
“A fresher green the smelling leaves display
And glittering as they tremble, cheer the day.”
from the poem The Hermit.
“Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.”
“…The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit…”
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 2: "Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought"
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 54
Source: Mathematics and the Physical World (1959), p. 89
Source: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 6, Transition And Crisis, p. 120
