Accounts Quote by Charles Lyell

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

— Vannevar Bush

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality,…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to geometry, mechanics,…

— Tobias Dantzig

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

— Franz Kafka

This characteristic of modern experimentsthat they consist principally of measurements, is so prominent, that the opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a…

— James Clerk Maxwell

“It is almost as if ideas set in mathematical form melt and become liquid and just as rivers can, from the most humble beginnings,…

— G. Arnell Williams

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the…

— Howard Aiken

Can you make fancy patterns of water that actually have some computation power? I'm betting that fluids are complex enough to do this.

— Terence Tao