“I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful.” Quote by 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
“In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.” MeanSourceResearchMathematicsPrimitiveRationalityResortsBiologist Author:Auguste Comte
“It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world will offer us numerous examples, makes one of the greatest charms attached to mathematical speculations.” WorldLawScienceInterestingExampleOffersIntellectualMathematicsMathematicalAnalysisCharmSpeculationCorrespondence Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace
“It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible help of mathematics can lead to conclusions which are diametrically opposite to one another.” HelpingLawScienceLogicOppositesMathematicsCastsConclusionIronFlexibilityInfallibleExact Sciences Author:Vasco Ronchi
“I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.” IfsKnowsMeanEndsWinningCostJustified Author:George Clooney
“It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in ten different ways at once. And the improbability of any complex organ being produced and brought to perfection in any such way is an improbability of the same kind and degree as that of producing a poem or a mathematical demonstration by throwing letters at random on a table.” WayKindDifferentEyeScienceOrderTenDegreesPerfectionLettersMathematicsTablesComplexesMathematicalDifferent WaysThrowingOrgansDemonstrationExaggerationImprobability Author:Joseph Murray
“Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far as to write a paper, which he took with him to the Institute, and began to read it. But in the first paragraph something struck him that he had not observed: he muttered: 'Il faut que j'y songe encore', and put the paper in his pocket.' [I must think about it again]” ThinkingWritingYearsFirstsPaperOvercomingDifficultyMathematicsPocketsParallelsInstituteParagraphAxiomsEncores Author:Augustus De Morgan
“Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.” RealityScienceOpportunityImaginationKnowingImagineAmountMathematicsMathematicalArithmeticMathematics And Science Author:Sofia Kovalevskaya
“Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.” MenMindSeemsNatureToo MuchMathematicsMathPhysicsMathematicalPuzzlesMathematics And ScienceScience PhysicsMath Is Like Author:Maria Goeppert-Mayer