God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! — William Blake Copy Share Image
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them. — Robert Recorde Copy Share Image
Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous. — Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville Copy Share Image
Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some… — David Bressoud Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group.… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio 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
MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more… — Jim Propp Copy Share Image
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypothesis, is like the art of decyphering, in which an ingenious conjecture… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new. — Clifford Truesdell Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable… — Plato Copy Share Image
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