I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been… — George Boole Copy Share Image
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
In essence, we string theorists have been trying to work out the score of the universe, the harmonies of the universe, the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate… — Hermann Minkowski Copy Share Image
The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed… — Charles Thom Copy Share Image
Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important… — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy. — Leonard Adleman Copy Share Image
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
With respect to why some acquired savants are musical, and some are good at the arts, and some are mathematical, why aren't… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time… — Hugo Rossi Copy Share Image
Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
According to PhD astrophysicists and qualified American science professors, the odds of the more than 2,500 prophecies found in the Bible being… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and… — John Banville Copy Share Image
He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them. — Robert Recorde Copy Share Image
There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image