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Mathematical Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
- Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical…
- To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.
- It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe…
- To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
- The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.
- 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…
- Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
- In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
- I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because,…
- Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining…
- Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties…
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