Quotes about ontology
ontology logic mathematics
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. Charles Sanders Peirce
ontology logic certainty
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought. Alfred North Whitehead
ontology limits logic
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. Rene Descartes
ontology faithfulness epistemology
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology. John Polkinghorne
ontology logic mysterious
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it. Eugene Wigner
ontology logic study
It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations. Felix Klein
ontology tests logic
No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof. Leonardo da Vinci
ontology infinity logic
Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish. Marcus Aurelius