Degrees Quote by G. H. Hardy

“Certain outcomes are unavoidable, invariable, absolutely unaffectable, and yet completely unpredictable. Certain outcomes are that way.”

— Hannah Pittard

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

I studied engineering at MIT. There, the late, great physicist Philip Morrison introduced me to the idea that, in any system, there exists the…

— Tohoru Masamune

Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author…

— John Maynard Keynes

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the…

— Winston Churchill

Experience has shown repeatedly that a mathematical theory with a rich internal structure generally turns out to have significant implications for the understanding of…

— William Thurston

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

— Noam Chomsky

The unexpected and unpredictable is real.

— Anonymous

Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by…

— Andrew Lo

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

— Voltaire

“There's that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected - something amazing - could happen. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you…

— Tess Gerritsen

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

— Philip J. Davis