164 quotes found
“I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall...”
“If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics fr...”
“Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.”
“The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money econom...”
“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.”
“Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were ...”
“Mr Baley", said Quemot, "you can't treat human emotions as though they were built about a positronic brain"."I'm not saying you can. Robotics is a deductive science and sociology an inductive one. ...”
“Mathematics is a wonderful common sense,To understand the harmony in nature magnificent; The wondrous language, & popular in terms of @ financeIts unique, and abundantly rich in terms of substance,”
“This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down.”
“Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.”
“In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.”
“A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.”
“If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.”
“The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It neednt have been this way. We didnt impose it on the Universe. Thats the way the Universe is. If this i...”
“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”
“We tend to teach mathematics as a long list of rules.You learn them in order and you have to obey them, because if you don't obey them you get a C-.This is not mathematics. Mathematics is the study...”
“If the institution of mathematics told a story . . . how would it end?”
“Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.”
“In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.”
“Physicists believe that the Gaussian law has been proved in mathematics while mathematicians think that it was experimentally established in physics.”
