Quotes of: Mathematics Keyword

What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

Julian Barnes

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

James F. Cooper

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

Charles Babbage

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Charles Caleb Colton

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

James Rothman

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Robert Morgan

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

Marquis De Custine

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

Adrien-Marie Legendre

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

John James Audubon

Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Art, and above all, music has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks to draw towards a total exaltation in which the indi...

Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition

's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the law of attraction of the bodies of the solar system. The deviation from complete accuracy is due to the facts, that the planets are not of inap...

The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Sean: You know what? You can shove your medal up your fucking ass! Because I don't give a shit about your medal. Because I knew you before you were a mathematical God. When you were pimple-faced and homesick and didn't know which side of the bed to p...

Good Will Hunting

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

Philip Treacy

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

Rene Descartes

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

Stephen Cole Kleene

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

Thomas Mann

Abstract mathematics combined with physics can discover and see more than any eye ever could.

Klaudio Marashi

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

Stefan Banach

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

Marcus du Sautoy

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equatio...

Maurice Ravel