Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is… — Leonardo da Vinci 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
In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is. — Norm MacDonald 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
We have never pushed it far enough to know, but we decided 47 percent was the right percentage. You can quote us… — Cinco Paul 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
Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge. — Auguste Comte 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
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid… — Sofia Kovalevskaya Copy Share Image
[On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and… — Proclus Copy Share Image
The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all… — Joseph Lovering Copy Share Image
Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite… — Arthur Koestler 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
Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty - by forms I am referring to coherent systems of… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
This harmony that human intelligence believes it discovers in nature - does it exist apart from that intelligence? No, without doubt, a… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Je serais reconnaissant a toute personne ayant compris cette demonstration de me l'expliquer. — Pierre Deligne Copy Share Image
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching. — George Polya Copy Share Image
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