Branches Quote by G. H. Hardy

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind…

— Anonymous

When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of the movement…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I…

— John Edensor Littlewood

We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.

— W. Edwards Deming

An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases…

— Richard Lewontin

Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and I do…

— Richard Lewontin

The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori.…

— Edmund Burke

There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history that can…

— Richard Lewontin

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

— Oliver Heaviside

As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation…

— Louis Pasteur

With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we…

— Claude Bernard

Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a…

— Martin Lewis Perl