Accounting Quote by Leonard Adleman

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or…

— Muhammad Iqbal

[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in writings related…

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves,…

— Henri Poincare

The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge…

— Morris Kline

Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

— Morris Kline

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,…

— John Maynard Keynes

Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.

— Barry Mazur

...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

To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.

— Pafnuty Chebyshev

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

— Alfred North Whitehead

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the…

— Jeremy Bentham

. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most…

— Henri Poincare