I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error. — Janet Coleman Copy Share Image
By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of,… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated,… — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity...… — Hermann Minkowski Copy Share Image
Something similar happens on the other side of the equation: Giving kindness does us as much good as receiving it. . .… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
What separates the winners from the losers is that winners are able to handle problems and crises that they never imagined would… — Georgette Mosbacher Copy Share Image
We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place.… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices.… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“It's only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those… — Sophus Lie Copy Share Image
It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The trick to not thinking is not adding energy to the equation in an effort to forcibly stop thinking from happening. It’s… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
