Quotes of: Mathematics Keyword

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

G. H. Hardy

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Arthur Eddington

A man craves ultimate truths. Every mortal mind, I think, is that way. But what is ultimate truth? It's the end of the road, where there is no more mystery, no more hope. And no more questions to ask, since all the answers have been given. But there ...

Fiasco

If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of seltzer down someone's pants. But if you win an Olympic gold medal, the world will not have one more Olympic gold medalist. It will ...

The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics

We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn it like any other, including our own. We have to learn our own language twice, first when we learn to speak it, second when we learn ...

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the want of an appropriate notation for expressing the conditions of a dynamical problem, and the general principles by which its solution must be obtaine...

George Boole

The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.

P.J. O'Rourke

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

Rene Descartes

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Stephen Hawking

mathematical problems solved; feature problems solved...

Lazarus Egn. Mukombe

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Charles Hermite

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

Henri Poincare

It's a simple matter of mathematics.

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.

P. J. O'Rourke

Zero is a black hole of mathematics.

Khalid Masood

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

Arthur Cayley

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

Henri Poincare

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

Euclid

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

George Boole

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

John Henry Carver

I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.

Eva Amurri