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
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and… — Isaac Newton 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
We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build… — Gerald Jay Sussman Copy Share Image
The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol? — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Two factors explain our success. One, MIT's renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on,… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number"… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
“We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729,… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
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