Cease to exist Quote by John D. Barrow

As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in…

— Arthur Koestler

“even the most seemingly abstract, sublimely theoretical, mathematicized achievements of science have in reality moved only a step or two away from a prehistoric,…

— Stanisław Lem

In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Modern science was born through the Scientific Revolution in the 11th/17th century at a time when, as we saw earlier, European philosophy had itself…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important…

— Stephen Smale

“Before the work of Georg Cantor in the nineteenth century, the study of the infinite was as much theology as science; now, we understand…

— Jordan Ellenberg

“Objects in mathematics are named after the first person after Euler to discover them.”

— Oft-Repeated Quip

“a singularity is not even mathematically describable.”

— Pierre St. Clair

“There are many other innovations in Boscovich's detailed treatise, but we are interested here in drawing attention to just this one point: that he…

— John D. Barrow

I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of…

— David Chalmers

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no…

— Paul Davies

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for…

— David Bressoud