Quotation Sign from Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond Exhibition, 1960-1961
THF169792 / Quotation Sign from Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond Exhibition, 1960-1961
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Artifact Overview
Artifact Details
Artifact
Information sign
Date Made
1960-1961
Location
at Henry Ford Museum in Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond
Object ID
2015.16.1.35
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Iron alloy
Paint (Coating)
Polyvinyl chloride
Wood (Plant material)
Color
Black (Color)
White (Color)
Dimensions
Height: 16 in
Width: 1 in
Length: 60 in
Inscriptions
side 1:
…mathematicians have intellectually created an ideal world,… None has the faintest conception of this world, except he who knows it. A.PRINGSHEIM
side 2:
I don't know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have been only as a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ISAAC NEWTON
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