In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better… — C. West Churchman Copy Share Image
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time… — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers? — Gil Kalai Copy Share Image
The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational… — George Washington Copy Share Image
One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet. — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't… — Chad Kroeger Copy Share Image
Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments.… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more… — Jim Propp Copy Share Image
You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s. — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image