“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force,… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes,… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading,… — Gary Bartz Copy Share Image
Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead… — Violeta Parra Copy Share Image
... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I'm a strong believer that you have to have an equal opportunity to fail and to try things that are hard. I… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience,… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
“The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to research a definite end, this study… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything… — George Andrews Copy Share Image
“It's intellectual freedom when a journalist can understand that 2 + 2 = 4; that's what Orwell was writing about in 1984.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the… — Pierre de Fermat Copy Share Image
I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects;… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
“Mathematics does furnish the power for deliberate thought and accurate statement, and to speak the truth is one of the most social… — S.T. Dutton Copy Share Image
“EB: Perhaps it's her way of rebelling. You know a thing or two about rebellion, I think. NW: Yes, but I did… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
“Origin of the Logical. Where has logic originated in men’s heads? Undoubtedly out of the illogical, the domain of which must originally… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Wherefore in all great works are Clerks so much desired? Wherefore are Auditors so well-fed? What causeth Geometricians so highly to be… — Robert Recorde Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
“Creating problems. Solving problems. Which are you truly good at? Things are the way they are. Things happen the way they happen.… — Thee Ace Man Copy Share Image
“In my view, Euler's tranquil temperament, fairness, and generosity were integral to his greatness as a mathematician and scientist- he was never… — David Stipp Copy Share Image
A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
“For instance, in a book entitled Mathematics and the Imagination (published in 1940) the authors, Edward Kasner and James Newman, introduced a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a checkbook, don't… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole Copy Share Image
The great thing about the story of 'Twilight', or the story of 'I Am Number Four' is that you get to deal… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
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![“It's intellectual freedom when a journalist can understand that 2 + 2 = 4; that's what Orwell was writing about in 1984. Everybody here applauds that book, but nobody is willing to think about what it means. What Winston Smith [the main character] was saying is, if we can still understand that 2 +…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/589/noam-chomsky-42_1984_it-s-intellectual-freedom-when-a-journal_1069742.jpg)
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