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“Abstract mathematics combined with physics can discover and see more than any eye ever could.”
“Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.”
“To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.”
“It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.”
“I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematic...”
“The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.”
“This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.”
“One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an...”
“Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips...”
“Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.”
“A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.”
“Mathematics is the music of reason.”
“Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.”
“For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.”
“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.”
“There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face it's like architecture or mathematics. ”
“When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics t...”
“The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.”
“God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.”
“I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms...”