Math Quotes and Trivia

Calculating replaces, while geometry stimulates, thinking
---Jakob Steiner (1796-1863)

It is said that Steiner's antagonism towards algebraic methods was so intense that he once threatened to discontinue his contributions to Crelle's famous mathematical journal, unless Crelle stopped publishing articles by Pl:ucker,...
---School Mathematics Geometry (Houghton Mifflin, 1966)