To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, rhythm is a type of divine mathematics in a way. No matter where you're from, we can all understand the… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a… — George Dyson Copy Share Image
Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
The chances of human beings being the only intelligent form of life in the universe are so minuscule that it's really kind… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have.… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
By the time the average person finishes college, he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes, and exams. The right… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style… — Chilly Gonzales Copy Share Image
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort. — Albert Einstein 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 world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent. — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error. — Tyler Winklevoss Copy Share Image
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato Copy Share Image
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