Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
One of the central developments of 19th century mathematics involved a dramatic increase in the standards of mathematical rigor. This was for… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system.… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects"… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number"… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
It's the vision of the composer that we have to determine, and not the absolute mathematical adherence of the score. In my… — Marc-Andre Hamelin 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
The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the… — Stephen Wolfram 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
Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination… — Lawrence Shepp Copy Share Image
Nutrition is not a mathematical equation in which two plus two is four. The food we put in our mouths doesn't control… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 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
Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to… — Johann Bernoulli Copy Share Image
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe that no one who is familiar, either with mathematical advances in other fields, or with the range of special biological… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
![“[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & in a word, much like air in all respects, but far more subtile. 2. I suppose this aether pervades all gross bodies, but yet so as to stand rarer in…” quote by Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/11c/isaac-newton-1226_air_1-and-first-i-suppose-that-there-is-diff_2720566.jpg)
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