“At a time where so many scholars are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream?” — René Thom Copy Share Image
All models divide naturally...into two a priori parts: one is kinematics, whose aim is to parameterize the forms of the states of… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ? — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global... — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness. — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
“At a time where so many scholars are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream?” — René Thom Copy Share Image
If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter. — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
All models divide naturally...into two a priori parts: one is kinematics, whose aim is to parameterize the forms of the states of the process… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle. — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ? — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
