Mathematics Quotes - Page 15

log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

Pascal Wager invented the calculator and he also said you can apply mathematics to faith in God so I thought that was pretty interesting.

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.