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Frederick the Great
(24 Jan 1712 - 17 Aug 1786)
Prussian king who is known as an enlightened despot, though an intellectual.
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Science Quotes by Frederick the Great (1)
I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus; it does not occupy itself with the probable truth; moreover it has the same method in every country.
— Frederick the Great
In Oeuvres de Frederic Le Grand edited by J.D.E. Preuss (1849), Vol. 7, 100. In Robert Édouard Moritz, Memorabilia Mathematica (1917), 310.
See also: | Analysis (39) | Calculus (13) | Geometry (38) | Method (14) | Synthesis (11) | Truth (247)
