Calling Quote by Terence Tao

“Arithmetic and number theory study patterns of number and counting. Geometry studies patterns of shape. Calculus allows us to handle patterns of motion. Logic…

— Keith Devlin

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some…

— National Academy of Sciences

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

— Karl Popper

Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory.

— Alan Guth

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

— David Hilbert

"Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory.

— Robert Aumann

The concept of 'measurement' becomes so fuzzy on reflection that it is quite surprising to have it appearing in physical theory at the most…

— John Stewart Bell

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated…

— David Hilbert

In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects…

— Philip J. Davis

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of…

— Richard P. Feynman

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

— Albert Einstein