All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry… — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don't know if I would be the algorithm. I've always been… — Lady Gaga 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
Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
All was predicted by the mathematical cycles of the Mayan calendars. -- It will change --everything will change. Mayan Day-keepers view the… — Carlos Barrios Copy Share Image
Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical… — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
“We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Whenever I want to represent or depict the official version, I will refer to them as 'mathematicians' or 'mathematical physicists' or idiots… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In the lab, we could not see or physically describe the mathematical objects that we called quarks, which we suspected were the… — David Gross Copy Share Image
The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid.… — Gosta Mittag-Leffler Copy Share Image
In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however,… — Clifford Truesdell Copy Share Image
We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
Vacuum stands and remains a mathematical space. A cube placed in a vacuum would not displace anything, as it would displace air… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image