Doe Quote by Serge Lang

Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.

— Hermann Weyl

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

— Hermann Weyl

The axiomatic method is very powerful

— Kurt Gödel

The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.

— Bertrand Russell

I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling.

— Laura van den Berg

In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually…

— Ivor Grattan-Guinness

An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In…

— David Berlinski

If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until…

— Lindsey Buckingham

A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.

— James Joseph Sylvester

One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume,…

— William Stanley Jevons

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

— Charles Darwin

An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit…

— David Berlinski