Coats Quote by Richard Lewontin

Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by which he…

— Ian Hacking

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

— Edward Teller

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

— Evan Esar

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

— Evan Esar

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

— Joseph Fourier

The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new…

— James Bryant Conant

In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call…

— Abraham Kaplan

“One way of thinking about science is that it’s a check against the natural human tendency to see patterns that might not be there.…

— Jason Fagone

The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if…

— Karl Popper

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the…

— Stephen Hawking

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

— Richard P. Feynman