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
[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of… — Henri Poincare 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
One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer… — Max Bill Copy Share Image
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is… — Lewis Fry Richardson Copy Share Image
The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him. — Nikolay Konstantinov 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 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
As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is… — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently… — Jean-Victor Poncelet Copy Share Image
If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don’t know if I would be the algorithm. I’m not a… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
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