Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia… — Ernest Nagel Copy Share Image
If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Mathematical study and research are very suggestive of mountaineering. Whymper made several efforts before he climbed the Matterhorn in the 1860's and… — Louis J. Mordell Copy Share Image
Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a… — Alexander von Humboldt 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
Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
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