Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
One of my colleagues likes to say that, mathematics is the - he thinks about the only subject that he knows in… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
I found marketing to be highly descriptive and prescriptive, without much of a foundation in deep research. I brought in economics, organization… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
“As mathematicians, proportionality principle state that; if 2=4, 3=6, 4=8 and 5=10, so from above sequence, someone can easily guess the value… — Ntambara Sylvestre Owen Berbason Copy Share Image
I think people have this hang-up from school that maths is this dusty old textbook that was finished hundreds of years ago,… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
“In Euclid's Elements we meet the concept which later plays a significant role in the development of science. The concept is called… — Alexey Stakhov Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which… — Melvin Schwartz Copy Share Image
Reading, writing, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, medicine, physics, and more were all at one time deep occult secrets. Today, many of these things… — Donald Michael Kraig Copy Share Image
“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician,… — Joseph Bertrand Copy Share Image
As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“Mama, you know, lost all her enthusiasm for mothering by Baby Number Seven. What a pity she did not lose her enthusiasm… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers.… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches?... Mathematics is, in my opinion,… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Her touch is like doing simple math When she sleeps in the bed, subtracting clothes There is a red ink, like a… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
“I am telling you what I’m telling you. Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world… — Astro Teller Copy Share Image
“Another thing to be noted about functions is that the important ones have names; and the really important ones have special symbols… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is needed is the imagination of the poet and the reasoning power of the mathematician. The thief of "The Purloined Letter"… — Vincent Buranelli Copy Share Image
That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence.… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen,… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
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I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There would be this algebraic equation with an equals sign in the middle, and all the components would have different letters of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
![“That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral…” quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/acb/carl-friedrich-gauss-9412_adapted_that-this-subject-of-imaginary-magnitude_3134596.png)
