The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I think actually if you take the analogy with other areas of engineering, and increasingly of science and even mathematics, you can… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Outside of mathematics and logic, there are common sense truths, such as that it is snowing that normal observers, in a specified… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“result: every description of events in space involves the use of a rigid body to which such events have to be referred.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature.… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth;… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of… — James Tanton 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
Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's,… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
There's barely any aspect of our modern lives that hasn't had a mathematical contribution at some point and yet, if you asked… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
You know, Mouse," Tabby said, "a brilliant cat like me should have smart friends; people who can count to more than four."… — Ruth Park Copy Share Image
“The fact that simultaneous discovery occurs in mathematics, as well as the sciences, points toward some objective element within their subject matter… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the… — George Polya Copy Share Image
No mathematician of equal stature has risen from our generation... Hilbert was singularly free from national and racial prejudices; in all public… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Yes, in Math City: 2 + 2 + him (her) = 5 not 4. And again yes: A stupid man + 5… — Ahmad Amani Copy Share Image
You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Take a look at the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 7, 6. Read them out loud. Now look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite… — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Therefor I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man’s right of dominion, or to the interest… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
