Quotes of: Mathematics Keyword

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

David Hilbert

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Francis Bacon

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

Joseph Glanvill

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Richard M. Nixon

Nash: There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

A Beautiful Mind

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

John Adams

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

Shakuntala Devi

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

Life

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

Jurassic Park

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

Stephen Cole Kleene

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

Stephen Cole Kleene

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

Mike Myers

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

William Gibson

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

Brit Marling

From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advanci...

Kenneth R. Miller

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

Andrew Wiles

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

James Joseph Sylvester

I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.

Andrea Hirata

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

Immanuel Kant