Leopold Kronecker Quotes

“God made the integers all else is the work of man.”

“God made the integers”

“We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.”

“The three species of pine native to Wisconsin (white, red and jack) differ radically in their opinions about marriageable age. The precocious jackpine sometimes bloom and bears cones a year or two after leaving the nursery, and a few of my 13-year-old jacks already boast of grandchildren. My 13-year-old reds first bloomed this year, but my whites have not yet bloomed; they adhere closely to the Anglo-Saxon doctrine of free, white, and twenty-one.”

“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”

“I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them.”

“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.”

“Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.”

“In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries no man can ignore all of them. ”

“0 God assist our side: at least avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me.”