“To return to the general analysis of the Rosicrucian outlook. Magic was a dominating factor, working as a mathematics-mechanics in the lower… — Frances A. Yates Copy Share Image
I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry… — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
“Programming was very different from mathematics, as it was far more creative. In math, there was one right answer, and you worked… — B.V. Larson Copy Share Image
“Where numbers only represent real things, you don’t need a number to express the absence of something. It is an abstract concept… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack Copy Share Image
Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen,… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Those who wish to change the world should have the best possible understanding of the world, including what is revealed by the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step.… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational, — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them. — Sun Tzu 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
I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
This therefore is Mathematics: She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul; She gives life to her own discoveries; She… — Proclus Copy Share Image
