Discovery Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases…

— Alfred North Whitehead

In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising directly from…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

It is important to distinguish the difficulty of describing and learning a piece of notation from the difficulty of mastering its implications. [...] Indeed,…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the…

— Charles Babbage

It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.

— Wilfrid Sheed

Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words…

— Brian Eno

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

— Gustave Flaubert

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

— David Mermin

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You…

— John Green