There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it. — Gil Kalai Copy Share Image
We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough. — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Teaching high school, in addition to knowing one's subject matter thoroughly and being able to convey it to others, requires the grit… — Larry Cuban Copy Share Image
Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It's very good jam," said the Queen. "Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate." "You couldn't have it if you… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Human beings, from a mathematical perspective, are fairly limited. Two and three dimensions, maybe five, and we're OK. — Usama Fayyad 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
Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's [Sanders] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history,… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening. — Chad Kroeger Copy Share Image
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will… — Thales Copy Share Image
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
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