Freedom Quote by Isabel Paterson

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

— Marquis de Custine

“Efficiency is a ratio, not an absolute.”

— Lawrence H. Keeley

In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on…

— Jean-Victor Poncelet

“The ease with which collaboration occurs in mathematical research and the essential similarity of the fruits of such collaboration to that of individual work…

— John D. Barrow

“Engineers can compute but not define, mathematicians can define but not compute, economists can neither define nor compute.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point…

— Hermann Weyl

“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The thesis of the book,” he writes in response, “when correctly interpreted, is essentially trivial. . . . To ‘prove’ such a mathematical result by a costly…

— Jordan Ellenberg

“concentration breeds efficiency while division brings inefficiency, error, and tension.”

— Eknath Easwaran

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the…

— Howard Aiken

It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom…

— James R Newman