Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Friedrich Gauss

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Charles Sanders Peirce

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

Eugene Wigner

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

David Chalmers

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

Andy Rooney

I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.

Vanna Bonta

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

Bill Viola

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

Edgar Mitchell

It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in ancient mythology and mystical experience and so forth can pretty well be modeled within the world of quantum physics. That's a 20th century phenomenon also.

Don McLean

American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening; a mystical trip into my past.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is

Aldous Huxley

Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience.

Thomas Merton

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

Tom Stoppard

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

John Stott

...The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical experience of our own, but our practical relationships of love with other people.

John Smith

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.