Defined Quote by John Allen Paulos Download Open image “Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.” — John Allen Paulos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defined Enough Mathematics
Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines. — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things. — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on. — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on the famous… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking. — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any… — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be a jerk… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
“The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II.” — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think it would be beneficial if people thought of each other as “historical factorials.” Thus, (Myrtle!) would be understood not just as… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet." — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the… — Robert Foster Bennett Copy Share Image
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
