The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death.… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access… — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory… — Gerard Debreu Copy Share Image
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world.… — Ivan Sutherland Copy Share Image
Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It… — Ian Thorpe Copy Share Image
The extraordinary fact is that the first idea I had which motivated me, that worked, is conjecture, a mathematical idea which may… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way. — Max Dehn Copy Share Image
He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination… — Lawrence Shepp Copy Share Image
The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image