Conception Quote by Sophus Lie

The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of Euclid, Apollonius…

— Dominic Cummings

“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier , Kepler ,…

— Anonymous

Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry…

— Archimedes

“At the Stourbridge Fair in 1663, at age twenty, he purchased a book on astrology, “out of a curiosity to see what there was…

— Carl Sagan

...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Condon, quick on his feet, replied that the accusation was untrue. He was not a revolutionary in physics. He raised his right hand: “I…

— Carl Sagan

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

— Nicholas Murray Butler

“For the purposes of science, information had to mean something special. Three centuries earlier, the new discipline of physics could not proceed until Isaac…

— James Gleick

“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one…

— Henry Adams

We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as…

— Arthur Koestler