“The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security,… — Hendrik Lenstra Copy Share Image
“The assumption that numbers and mathematical or logical laws are mental is due to the even more widespread notion that only particular… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Todd, trust math. As in Matics, Math E. First-order predicate logic. Never fail you. Quantities and their relation. Rates of change. The… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“As to the need of improvement there can be no question whilst the reign of Euclid continues. My own idea of a… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap.… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“To be an engineer, and build a marvelous machine, and to see the beauty of its operation is as valid an experience… — Calvin C. Clawson Copy Share Image
“There is no great religion without a great schism. All of them have it. And that's because you're dealing with something called… — Tom Quinn Copy Share Image
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or… — Paul Erdős Copy Share Image
Euclid manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science.… — Sofia Kovalevskaya Copy Share Image
When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Henceforth, whilst there are a great many theories and models proposed as to how, or why, magic works (based on subtle energies,… — Phil Hine Copy Share Image
In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations?… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions… — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
The practice of first developing a clear and precise definition of a process without regard for efficiency, and then using it as… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an… — Daniel Tammet 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
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
![“[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care in the least that all the world said it could not be done, or that one knew not enough mathematics even to figure a formula beyond the…” quote by Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/062/henry-adams-1542_attraction_p-olitical-and-social-and-scientific-val_2213281.png)
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