Amusement Quote by Ada Lovelace

I believe that no one who is familiar, either with mathematical advances in other fields, or with the range of special biological conditions to…

— Ronald Fisher

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

— Bertrand Russell

[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those…

— Anonymous

It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom…

— James R Newman

Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of…

— Ada Lovelace

“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws, even), not…

— G. Arnell Williams

The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a…

— Alexander Grothendieck

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things.…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the…

— Howard Aiken

So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics.

— Charlie Munger

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an…

— Thomas Piketty