Funny Quote by Gian-Carlo Rota Download Open image “Nature imitates mathematics.” — Gian-Carlo Rota ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Inspirational Love Mathematics
Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is. — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. — Alexander Markovich Polyakov Copy Share Image
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws. — Roger Lewin Copy Share Image
“It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which give us the key… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery. — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to decide which. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined.… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but two or… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law of nature.… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at my awesome twitter followers & think to myself, What the hell would I do without them :) — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Facebook on going public with all my private information... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image