Internet Quote by Dan Brown

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking.…

— Ambrose Bierce

Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of…

— John F. Kennedy

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking.…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was…

— Voltaire

“We mathematicians understand that without the education of children, the economy cannot grow, and the world would starve from ignorance.”

— V.M.Robinson

“The mathematical economists have commonly been mathematicians first and economists afterward, disposed to oversimplify the data and underestimate the divergence between their premises and…

— Frank H. Knight

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges

“Modern scientific accomplishments" --a wealth of methods coupled with a poverty of intentions which, having nearly exhausted the hell-potential of the earth, move on…

— Kenneth Patchen

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…

— Stephen Smale

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

— Joseph Fourier

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

— Bill Gaede

“A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed by everyone.”

— Isaac Asimov