Equations Quotes

An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way, regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later to have an application. Then one has good luck. At age 78.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as the rulers of us all.

Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although the lay public considers mathematical equations to be rather opaque, to a scientist an equation is very much like a movement in a larger symphony. Simplicity. Elegance. These are the qualities that have inspired some of the greatest artists to create their masterpieces, and they are precisely the same qualities that motivate scientists to search for the laws of nature. LIke a work of art or a haunting poem, equations have a beauty and rhythm all their own.

Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).

God is not a dead equation!

Stardom equals freedom. It's the only equation that matters.

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

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.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

God is not described in equations.

The same equations have the same solutions

The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Fascism is meaningless because it's so completely indefinable, so where does the 'anti' come into the equation?

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.