The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor. — H. David Burton Copy Share Image
Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count… — Robertson Davies 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
I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm.… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration. — William Petty Copy Share Image
The mathematical fraternity is a little like a self-perpetuating priesthood. The mathematicians of today teach the mathematicians of tomorrow and, in effect,… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a… — Martin Shubik Copy Share Image
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ... — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
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