Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two… — Hans Christian von Baeyer 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
The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I… — Jack Edmonds Copy Share Image
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation.… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not… — Seth Lloyd 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
Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
One nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the… — Edmund Leach Copy Share Image
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal,… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The good news is that, at least in economics, I've seen movement away from its overemphasis on mathematical models of purely rational… — Robert J. Shiller 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
Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age… — Julia Robinson Copy Share Image
Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings… — Arthur M. Wellington Copy Share Image
Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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