The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to… — Johann Bernoulli Copy Share Image
The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal,… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
One of my colleagues likes to say that, mathematics is the - he thinks about the only subject that he knows in… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything… — Julian Coolidge Copy Share Image
All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers. — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
