Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Rob Brydon

Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.

Richard P. Feynman

The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth." But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations--to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to experiment to check again whether we have made the right guess.

Richard P. Feynman

What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the material with which we work, by nature herself. We look, and we see what we find, and we cannot say ahead of time successfully what it is going to look like. ... It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

Richard P. Feynman

A great deal more is known than has been proved.

Richard P. Feynman

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

Russell Hoban

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

William J. Clinton

By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.

Richard Preston

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

Henry Ford

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Bill Cowher

For us to come in here and do what we did, it took a supreme effort.

Russ Feingold

should disqualify you from being on the Supreme Court.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Rand Paul

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Christine Pelosi

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Russell Hoban

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

Rudolph A. Marcus

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

John Neumann

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

All mathematics is tautology.

Paul Erdos

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

Lewis Carroll

Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

Gabriel Marcel

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.