Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Sanders Peirce

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

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

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.

John Polkinghorne

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

Marcus Aurelius

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

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.

Bertrand Russell

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

Luis Gonzalez

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

Becca Fitzpatrick

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

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,

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.

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.

David Quammen

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

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.

Carl Sagan

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

Alan Watts

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

Charles Hermite

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

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.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Anaxagoras

There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.