A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished.… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation.… — Ian Stewart 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
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present. — John Donne Copy Share Image
We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or "real" probability. If he is consistent a… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
... each of the 24 modes in the Ramanujan function corresponds to a physical vibration of a string. Whenever the string executes… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man. — Wallace B. Smith Copy Share Image
Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions. ... The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these… — William Rowan Hamilton Copy Share Image
If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
I venture to give an alternative method of regarding the processes occurring in the electric field, which I have often found useful… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image