“If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile… — Johannes Kepler 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
“The language of categories is affectionately known as "abstract nonsense," so named by Norman Steenrod. This term is essentially accurate and not… — Paolo Aluffi Copy Share Image
Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that… — Noga Alon Copy Share Image
It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos)… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are proud of the fact that, generally, they do their work with a piece of chalk and a blackboard. They value… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
“So what were your favorite subjects in school?" "School?" He leaned back in his chair as though he needed the extra space… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind… — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“he presented me with a mathematical conundrum,” he said. “It’s a famous one, the P = NP problem. Basically, it asks whether… — Keigo Higashino Copy Share Image
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
“My sub doesn't pay for me,” he says, pulling me to my feet. “That just doesn't happen.” “But we ordered so much,”… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ]… — Francois-Joseph Servois Copy Share Image
Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Before the Arabic numerals replaced the Roman ones, the hexadecimal system (taken from Chinese) was present in italian which didn't recognize 'Zero'… — Ibrahim Ibrahim Copy Share Image
“My feelings about politics and literature and mathematics and the rest of life’s minutiae can only be described through a labyrinthine of… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
I think it is a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Always try to innovate. If you lose your old fitness, you lose out to Bose-Einstein condensation. I am sure that companies that… — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One is the notion that knowledge is worth acquiring, all knowledge, and that a solid grounding in mathematics provides one with the… — William H. Patterson Jr Copy Share Image
Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily… — John A. Van de Walle Copy Share Image
They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
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