Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Nobody listens to mathematicians.

Bertrand Russell

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

Bertrand Russell

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man.

Reggie Evans

That was all (garbage) because all them young guys, they play (center). I play (power forward). Do the math on that. That was just more (garbage).

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

William Shakespeare

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.

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.

David Krumholtz

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

David Graeber

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

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.

David Douglass

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

Jacques Rossouw

We set out to test a promising but unproven hypothesis that has proven to be less promising than we anticipated.

Paul Mlakar

It is a hypothesis that we are looking at.

Michael Crichton

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

Isaac Newton

I do not feign hypotheses.

Edward de Bono

Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.

Henri Poincare

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

James J. Gibson

The hypothesis that things have affordances, and that we perceive or learn to perceive them, is very promising, radical, but not yet elaborated.