Rene Thom Quotes
- The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I should…
- The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.
- If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.
- Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global...
- At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?
- 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 it…