“...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the Mystical Body of Christ. In this we have come to know the love of God, said John the Apostle, that He laid down His life for us, and we likewise ought to lay down our life for the brethren. He who has the goods of this world and sees his brother in need and closes his heart to him, how does the love of God abide in him? (1Jn 3:16 17)” KnowsWorldNeedsShouldHeartDoeSaidHelpingBodyChristPoorPovertyOur LivesThis WorldBrotherDutyOughtMembersCatholicLaysGod LoveGoodsGenocideUnfortunateMysticalApostlesBrethrenBody Of Christ Author:Pope John XXII
“...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of seemingly generality is, in essence, the same as a small and concrete special case.” ScienceCasesSpecialExampleSourceConceptsEssenceMathematicsInstanceMathematicalConcreteGeneralities Author:Paul Halmos
“I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this.” FeelsHappensLuckyRingsGood LifeBrass Author:George Clooney
“All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.” ArtLawScienceNatureNumbersBeautyEffectsConsequenceMathematicsMathematicalAestheticScholarSmall Numbers Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace
“An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development in mathematics since the invention of calculus 300 years ago.” YearsImportantScienceTheoryDevelopmentSpringYears AgoMathematicsUniversityInventionCatastropheLecturesDescribingCalculusAnnouncementsNorthwesternNorthwestern University Book:The Collected Papers of Stephen Smale Source: The Collected Papers of Stephen Smale
“Common integration is only the memory of differentiation.” MemoriesCommonEducationMathematicsIntegrationDifferentiation Author:Augustus De Morgan
“I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful.” BeautifulScienceTechnologyMathematics Author:Rozsa Peter
“I was x years old in the year x2.” YearsEducationMathematicsMathMathematicalMath And ScienceMath EducationMathematics By Mathematicians Author:Augustus De Morgan
“Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has no square root; thirdly that the first non-existent is to the second as the circumference of a circle is to the diameter.” FirstsPersonsMightImagineNegativeRootsMathematicsCirclesSquaresQuantityRidiculeSquare Roots Author:Augustus De Morgan