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Mathematical Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth…
- I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive…
- The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities.…
- No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
- There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to…
- It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
- Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
- Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life…
- Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
More Mathematical Quotes
- Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead
- The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant
- As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his… — Annie Besant
- My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is… — David Bohm
- No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole
- Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math.… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar