Certainty Quotes

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In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of… — Werner Heisenberg
Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in… — William Stanley Jevons
It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations. — Felix Klein
ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient. — Colin Maclaurin
A good proof is one that makes us wiser. — IU?. I. Manin
Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all. — Herbert Marcuse
Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound. — John Milton
Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective. — Hermann Minkowski
If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief… — Moby
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and… — Moby
How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names… — John Allen Paulos
Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics… — Ivars Peterson
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. — Charles Sanders Peirce
A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen there are people… — Henri Poincare
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the… — Bertrand Russell
Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in… — Robert J. Sawyer
We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one… — Voltaire
We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days...… — Alfred North Whitehead
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought. — Alfred North Whitehead
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it. — Eugene Wigner

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