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- Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
- 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…
- All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
- This is not mathematics; this is theology.
- An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development…
- Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
- There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither…
- There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
- Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well…
- While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal…
- Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the…
- I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.
- 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.…
- Paul Erdos has a theory that God has a book containing all the theorems of mathematics with their absolutely most beautiful proofs, and when he…
- It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found…
- Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.
- Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
- "The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."
- There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than…
- Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.
More Mathematics Quotes
- If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of… — Martin Rees
- What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily… — Bertrand Russell
- In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each… — Hermann Hankel
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery… — Francis Bacon
- 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 Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson