Creation Quote by Paul Halmos Download Open image “Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.” — Paul Halmos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creation Education Knowledge Logic Math Mathematics May Shock Surprise
Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“Even science is inductive, relying on observations and best explanations, not always deductive conclusions.” — Nabeel Qureshi Copy Share Image
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Todd, trust math. As in Matics, Math E. First-order predicate logic. Never fail you. Quantities and their relation. Rates of change. The vital statistics… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own question, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“In other words, general set theory is pretty trivial stuff really, but, if you want to be a mathematician, you need some and here… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The mathematical fraternity is a little like a self-perpetuating priesthood. The mathematicians of today teach the mathematicians of tomorrow and, in effect, decide whom… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Feller was an ebullient man, who would rather be wrong than undecided. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
I believe if there is a creator it will basically ask me two questions, how well did you enjoy my creation and what did… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed… — Carsten Jensen Copy Share Image
In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image