Broken Quote by George Biddell Airy

The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of Euclid, Apollonius…

— Dominic Cummings

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

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

— Ernst Mayr

“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity…

— G. Arnell Williams

“In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the Method of approximating series & the Rule for reducing any dignity of any Binomial…

— Isaac Newton

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.

— Mary Somerville

“…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and…

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the…

— W. W. Rouse Ball

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the…

— Robert B. Laughlin

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

— Paul Auster

I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world.

— Herbert A. Simon