Mathematics Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image ““Mathematics is not just a “numbers game,” it is a way of thinking.”” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mathematics Way of thinking
Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a… — Constance Reid Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking. — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is a tool which ideally permits mediocre minds to solve complicated problems expeditiously.” — Floyd Alburn Firestone Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but… — Meir Shalev Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations. — Dirk Jan Struik Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself. — Claude Fayette Bragdon Copy Share Image
Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Mathematics is one of the surest ways for a man to feel the power of thought and the magic of the spirit. Mathematics is… — Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
“How in the world did I ever find you?” Mackenzie Winters “Math class.” Brandon Knight” — Bella Jeanisse Copy Share Image
“One is the notion that knowledge is worth acquiring, all knowledge, and that a solid grounding in mathematics provides one with the essential language… — William H. Patterson Jr Copy Share Image
“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration of the… — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share Image
“We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony? — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
