Contradiction Quote by Richard Baxter

Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things…

— Anonymous

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.

— Richard P. Feynman

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually…

— Henri Poincare

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

— Whitfield Diffie

Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science.…

— William Stanley Jevons

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

— Richard P. Feynman

The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even a recent…

— Ada Lovelace

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of…

— Richard Dawkins

Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise they are…

— Blaise Pascal

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is…

— Bertrand Russell

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. Math…

— Jordan Ellenberg