Mathematical Quotes
710 quotes by 419 authors
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We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical…
— Albert Claude
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My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by…
— Maurice Ravel
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It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are…
— James Jeans
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The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers.…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct…
— John von Neumann
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If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though…
— Martin Gardner
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Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by…
— Isaac Asimov
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The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to…
— George Polya
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Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name…
— Isaac Newton
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A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of…
— Paul Dirac
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There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with…
— Johannes Kepler
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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
— Albert Einstein
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In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all;…
— Albert Einstein
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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
— Andrew Wiles
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So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but…
— Henri Poincare
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Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
— John Arbuthnot
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His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance…
— Nikola Tesla
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Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer,…
— Oliver Heaviside
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