Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Sanders Peirce

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

Charles Sanders Peirce

... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.

Chad Kroeger

There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.

Brian Kernighan

If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.

Charles Williams

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

Charles Lindbergh

Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.

Carl Sagan

Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []

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.

Alan Turing

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...

David Hilbert

We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.

David Hilbert

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.

Bertrand Russell

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

Bertrand Russell

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

Bertrand Russell

Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

Edmund Husserl

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

Eckhart Tolle

Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

Auguste Comte

Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

Augusten Burroughs

I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.

Bertrand Russell

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

Bertrand Russell

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Charles Babbage

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam,

Charles Babbage

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Blaise Pascal

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Blaise Pascal

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

Blaise Pascal

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

Arthur Eddington

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Edgar Allan Poe

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

Albert Einstein

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.