Chess Problems Are The Hymn-tunes Of Mathematics.

No Mathematician Should Ever Allow Himself To Forget That Mathematics, More Than Any Other Art Or Science, Is A Young Man's Game

I Propose To Put Forward An Apology For Mathematics; And I May Be Told That It Needs None, Since There Are Now Few Studies More Generally Recognized, For Good Reasons Or Bad, As Profitable And Praiseworthy.

... Philosophy Proper Is A Subject, On The One Hand So Hopelessly Obscure, On The Other So Astonishingly Elementary, That There Knowledge Hardly Counts.

Chess Problems Are The Hymn-tunes Of Mathematics.

The Babylonian And Assyrian Civilizations Have Perished; Hammurabi, Sargon And Nebuchadnezzar Are Empty Names; Yet Babylonian Mathematics Is Still Interesting, And The Babylonian Scale Of 60 Is Still Used In Astronomy.