History Quote by Amir Alexander Download Open image ““The Elements is arguably the most influential mathematical text in history.”” — Amir Alexander ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful in Science,… — Robert Turnbull Copy Share Image
As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed by everyone.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Somewhere out there is a theory that would explain my empirical observations, and this theory has yet to be discovered. Mathematics thrives on such… — Henri Darmon Copy Share Image
“like literary fiction, mathematical imagination entertains pure possibilities.” — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“Just make sure to select something that was written before our hyperconnected era and yet seems timeless. Such writings can challenge our assumptions about… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable." — Alexander Dewdney Copy Share Image
“We live in the era of the scientific savage,” he reflected, “where all the wisdom of science, mathematics and physics are used for the… — Daniel Immerwahr Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
