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- Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in…
- There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was…
- In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the…
- [The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ] anticipating, for my…
- The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical appliances…
- There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a literature generated by…
- It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be so closely entwined.…
- Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.
- Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of…
- It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.
- How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is no appeal. We…
- Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.
- The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.
- Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the…
- To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of…
- Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.
- The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.
- Every dimension is special.
- Everyone else would climb a peak by looking for a path somewhere in the mountain. Nash would climb another mountain altogether and from that distant…
- Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.
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
- It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists… — William Stanley Jevons
- 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
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle