Notation Quotes

27 quotes by 25 authors

...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad… — William Whewell
Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such… — Michael Faraday
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour. — Gottfried Leibniz
Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of… — Murray Gell-Mann
It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that hardly deserves the… — Gottlob Frege
Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go.… — Annie Dillard
When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts. — Leslie Lamport
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate… — Niklaus Wirth
To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect. — Evan Parker
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the… — Alfred North Whitehead
Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +- — Mark Dvoretsky
Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction… — Charles Babbage
A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it almost seem like a live teacher. — Bertrand Russell
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbageâ€™s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical… — Ada Lovelace
This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around. — Jim Blinn
A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving… — Cornelius Cardew
The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the… — Cornelius Cardew
As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any… — Franz Liszt
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation. — Harrison Birtwistle

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