Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Felix Klein

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Eugene Wigner

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

Leonardo da Vinci

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

John Polkinghorne

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

Rene Descartes

We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.

Marcus Aurelius

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.

Bertrand Russell

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

Mark Haddon

I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spend all your time thinking about them

Elizabeth Mackay

I think if they were to make such a move, this would be a logical week,

Luis Gonzalez

I'm still trying to find some logic to it all.

Ronald Walters

I don't know where the logic was that says she could overcome that. I don't understand why she got into it in the first place.

Justin Phillips

I don't understand the governor's logic on it. It just seems like an assault, period, on the working class.

Christopher Shays

I don't think she can be objective because, frankly, I would want to know what was she doing in that time, before the storm, during the storm, after the storm. She is going to be one of the people that, in a sense, is being investigated. So I'm not sure that she's the logical choice.

Rita Brown

If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

William Booth

If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do.

Alvin E. Roth

I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.

Clive Granger

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

Richard Bach

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.

Todd Berrier

With 43 teams here, you do the math.

Bill Gates

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.

David Chalmers

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.