Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and… — James Marsh Copy Share Image
See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence.… — George Polya Copy Share Image
We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in… — John Ashworth Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind… — John Dee Copy Share Image
Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour.… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest… — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
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