Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method — Nicholas Murray Butler 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
Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements. — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening. — Chad Kroeger Copy Share Image
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code. — David Parnas Copy Share Image
(Game theory is) essentially a structural theory. It uncovers the logical structure of a great variety of conflict situations and describes this… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
Je serais reconnaissant a toute personne ayant compris cette demonstration de me l'expliquer. — Pierre Deligne Copy Share Image
It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used. — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order -… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred. — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
