In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is…

“I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.”

— John Green

“Self-discovery is among the greatest of discoveries, like atoms, electrons and neutrons, which cannot be seen but whose impact can either destroy billions of…

— Raj Suthar

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves…

— Brad Pitt

I think self-discovery is the greatest achievement in life, because once you discover yourself and accept what you are, then you can fulfil your…

— Marco Pierre White

In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of…

— Ada Lovelace

The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the symbols by…

— Kenneth Clark

All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we…

— John D. Barrow

In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we…

— George Polya

The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the…

— Celia Green

Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in…

— Ada Lovelace

What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model…

— John L. Casti

“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it…

— Galileo Galilei

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

— John Edensor Littlewood

The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

— Gottfried Leibniz