No scientist thinks in formulae.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

— E. O. Wilson

[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven astronauts:] The…

— Freeman Dyson

“The most successful scientist thinks like a poet—wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical—and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world sees.”

— Edward O. Wilson

“Of course I am not religious—I don’t in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so”

— Philip Warren Anderson

The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of…

— Max Percy

Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with…

— Percival Lowell

“Not one of them [formulae] can be shown to have any existence, so that the formula of one of the simplest of organic bodies…

— Alexander William Williamson

I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical formulae, they…

— Benjamin Peirce

“There is nothing opposed in Biometry and Mendelism . Your husband and I worked that out at Peppards [on the Chilterns] and you will…

— Karl Pearson

“The simplest formular for a fulfilled life is; God+Wisdom+Industry! God is the source of your destiny and purpose; Wisdom is the potential he gives…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Old formulas don’t give new solutions.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

We need no science of formulae, but a science of forms.

— Viktor Schauberger

“I'm not entirely sure there is a formula for this,' I say. But I wish there were. I would have followed it, plugging in…

— Erin McCahan

They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

— G. H. Hardy

There is always more in one of Ramanujan's formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those which look…

— G. H. Hardy