The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
In 1688, Edward Lloyd opened a coffeehouse on London's seafront popular among underwriters, men in powdered wigs with mathematical minds and steely… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I will never probably have the mathematical foundation to truly understand what string theorists are talking about, but it feels good, just… — Jon Spaihts 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
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
Why you were born and why you are living depend entirely on what you are getting out of this world and what… — Oscar Hammerstein II Copy Share Image
Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Modern mathematics contains much more than that, of course. It includes set theory, for example, created by Georg Cantor in 1874, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that… — Colin Camerer 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
All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one,… — Balfour Stewart Copy Share Image
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods:… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
From a mathematical standpoint it is possible to have infinite space. In a mathematical sense space is manifoldness, or combinations of numbers.… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she… — Edmund Landau Copy Share Image
Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing… — George Johnson Copy Share Image
You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image