Advantage Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into…

— Arthur Eddington

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of…

— Edward Sapir

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content…

— Edward Sapir

It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

— Steve Winwood

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like…

— James Joseph Sylvester

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and…

— Banesh Hoffmann

“317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it…

— Anonymous

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of…

— Albert Einstein

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

— John Edensor Littlewood