Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov 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
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice. — George Polya Copy Share Image
To talk about communication theory without communicating its real mathematical content would be like endlessly telling a man about a wonderful composer,… — John R. Pierce Copy Share Image
A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through… — Max Horkheimer 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
It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
