Math Quotes - Page 17

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.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.

The world is more than the sum of its suffering.

I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

New Rule: Food companies must face the facts: One container equals one serving. Look, we’re Americans, and that means once we open the bag, there’s no stopping us until we’re licking stray bits of powdered cheese off the carpet. So stop trying to give us nutritional information based on a fraction of the package. It assumes a talent for two things that we’re really not capable of: restraint and math.

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

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other contexts, so as to develop a sense of the structure, not just familiarity with a particular tour through the structure.

Mathematics is an art of human understanding.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is probably due to the binary nature of mathematical perception. Either you have no inkling of an idea, or, once you have understood it, the very idea appears so embarrassingly obvious that you feel reluctant to say it aloud.

The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.