The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Although I liked especially physics and mathematics for which I had considerable talent, I decided to study medicine. This profession had for… — Renato Dulbecco Copy Share Image
I think that there is that special equation for everything, but I dont think our mathematics have evolved enough for us to… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
“I just wanted you to know these are my favorite numbers and my favorite twin primes: 137 and 139. And since they… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
“The choice of ten basic number symbols—that is, the Hindus’ choice of the base 10 for counting and doing arithmetic—is presumably a… — Keith J. Devlin Copy Share Image
I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and… — Emily Levine Copy Share Image
The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
-Hey Mrs Morgan -WHY ARE YOU TEXTING ME AT 2 IN THE MORNING? you can only text me for Math homework! -Oh… — Sheryne Brooks Copy Share Image
“This quest to take a problem and see what happens in different situations is called generalizing, and it is this force that… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
... mathematical knowledge ... is, in fact, merely verbal knowledge. "3" means "2+1", and "4" means "3+1". Hence it follows (though the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about… — John B. Conway Copy Share Image
The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A plug for the quantitative sciences: The reality is, most humans manage to feed, clothe, and amuse themselves, and yet are not… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“Aristotle draws a sharp dividing-line between the activities of the physicist and those of the mathematician. The mathematician limits his enquiry to… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death,… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
What I know is that if I was asked to teach mathematics in French for a week to young kids, I would… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
“But that can never be," said Milo, jumping to his feet. "Don't be too sure," said the child patiently, "for one of… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“The focus of history and philosophy of science scholar Arthur Miller’s (2010) "137: Jung and Pauli and the Pursuit of Scientific Obsession"… — Todd Hayen Copy Share Image
“This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
“This partial script was composed of ten signs, representing the numbers from 0 to 9. Confusingly, these signs are known as Arabic… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“My feelings about politics and literature and mathematics and the rest of life’s minutiae can only be described through a labyrinthine of… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
I think it is a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Always try to innovate. If you lose your old fitness, you lose out to Bose-Einstein condensation. I am sure that companies that… — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
“One is the notion that knowledge is worth acquiring, all knowledge, and that a solid grounding in mathematics provides one with the… — William H. Patterson Jr Copy Share Image
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
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