However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor. — H. David Burton Copy Share Image
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it… — Blaise Pascal 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
Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite… — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature.… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had… — Augustus De Morgan 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
The mathematical thermology created by Fourier may tempt us to hope that, as he has estimated the temperature of the space in… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but… — Celia Green 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
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