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
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we have dwelled on Godel's work at some length, is it because we see it in the mathematical analogy of what… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite. — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is… — Joseph Fourier 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
I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not… — George Spencer-Brown Copy Share Image
I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image