Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself.… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science,… — Carl Gustav Hempel 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
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well… — Henri Poincare 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
The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements...… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable… — Plato Copy Share Image
Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The extraction tax is based in part on production times the market value at the wellhead, so any downturn in the market… — Tom Wolf Copy Share Image
They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new. — Clifford Truesdell Copy Share Image
The idea of directing a film is a strange one for me. I feel anti-mathematical, in a way, in that sense. I… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
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