Showing posts with label Izaak Walton. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Mathematics is like . . .


For angling may be said to be so like the mathematics,
that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully, 
but that there will still be more new experiments left 
for the trial of other men that succeed us.  

 Izaak Walton (1594-1683), The Compleat Angler (1653-1676)