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Mathematical Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements... But a God…
- Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
- There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly,…
- Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.
- Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with…
- Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so…
- [I feel] engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence…
- Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures…
- Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
- Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
- Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
- We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
- Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
- Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
- There are two types of minds, the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are…
More Mathematical Quotes
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces.… — Albert Einstein
- So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a… — Henri Poincare
- The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that… — Benoit Mandelbrot
- The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything… — Nicholas Murray Butler
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon