Acquiescence Quote by John Allen Paulos

I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

— Gerd Gigerenzer

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science…

— Carl Sagan

“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood—except”

— Carl Sagan

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

— Felix Klein

The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of…

— Carl Gustav Hempel

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood.”

— Carl Sagan

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

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

— David Hilbert

“People simply do not understand numbers, risk, or probability, and few things can make discussion between experts and laypeople more frustrating than this “innumeracy,”…

— Thomas M. Nichols

[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological…

— E. O. Wilson

Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is formed slowly,…

— Joseph Fourier