Quotes of Mathematical - somelinesforyou

“ Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. ”

- William Gibson

“ I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged. ”

- Roger Jones

“ I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. ”

- John Nash

“ The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. ”

- Albert Pike

“ In a way, it's mathematically sure that if your poise is showing, if you are unhurried and unharried, you're on your budget. ”

- Loretta Young

“ Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. ”

- Andy Richter

“ As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable. ”

- Abraham Robinson

“ Sanity is not statistical. ”

- George Orwell

“ All problems are finally scientific problems. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. ”

- Milton Berle

“ We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. ”

- Roger Bacon

“ Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. ”

- David Hilbert

“ Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. ”

- G. H. Hardy

“ Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. ”

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

“ The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion. ”

- Friedrich List

“ Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. ”

- Thomas Robert Malthus

“ A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth. ”

- O.G. Sutton

“ If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries. ”

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

“ God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. ”

- Arthur Cayley

“ The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. ”

- Marquis De Custine

“ The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers. ”

- Paul Klee

“ I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been developed in a certain order. ”

- George Boole

“ No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. ”

- George Boole
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