Mathematical Formulas Quotes
- 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… — Charles Thom
- One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we… — Heinrich Hertz
- The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary… — Wassily Leontief
- The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by… — Georg Simmel