It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius. — Marston Morse Copy Share Image
The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
What I realized is that if we're going to be able to have a theory about what happens in, for example, nature… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image