Biology Quote by Israel Gelfand

“What, to use Noble Laureate Wigner's classic phrase, accounts for the 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics'?”

— Francis S. Collins

“our successful theories aren’t mathematics approximating physics, but mathematics approximating mathematics.”

— Max Tegmark

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have…

— George Bernard Shaw

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

— Eugene Wigner

“Math is a science of not being wrong about things,”

— Jordan Ellenberg

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately…

— Francis Crick

Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by which he…

— Ian Hacking

“Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks…

— Sean Carroll

“The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical philatelists, mere…

— Stephen Senn

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important…

— John Astin

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.

— Anonymous

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl