Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe. — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river. — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice. — George Polya Copy Share Image
The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions. — Peter Tait Copy Share Image
I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure. — Albert Einstein 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… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There… — Ned Colletti Copy Share Image
An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how… — Stephen Leacock 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
... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its… — Ada Lovelace 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
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ... — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is. — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. — Arthur Cayley Copy Share Image
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. — Ogyu Sorai Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be… — Gabriel Lippmann Copy Share Image
It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree… — Hiram Maxim Copy Share Image
Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
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