It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ...… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the… — Pafnuty Chebyshev Copy Share Image
I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Also, it's not the mathematical skill that's critical to winning, it's the discipline of being able to stick to the system. There… — Blair Hull Copy Share Image
If the system exhibits a structure which can be represented by a mathematical equivalent, called a mathematical model, and if the objective… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I… — Jack Edmonds Copy Share Image
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