Activity Quote by Rene Thom Download Open image “I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.” — Rene Thom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity Believe I believe Mathematician Natural Nature Prove
Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe that something… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are proud of the fact that, generally, they do their work with a piece of chalk and a blackboard. They value hand-done proofs… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. — George Polya Copy Share Image
The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very high standards,… — Herbert S. Gaskill Copy Share Image
What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global... — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness. — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
“At a time where so many scholars are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream?” — René Thom Copy Share Image
If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter. — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
All models divide naturally...into two a priori parts: one is kinematics, whose aim is to parameterize the forms of the states of the process… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle. — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ? — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
