“In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus.” LongInterestDoubtFieldsPureEvidenceMathematicsUniversitySakeMathematicalNo DoubtProfessorsSurvivingMichiganEgyptianUniversity Of MichiganPapyrus Author:James Henry Breasted
“These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.” ShouldIdeasSeemsSciencePerceptionEvidenceMathematicsDenyExtrasOverwhelmingDisturbingSensoryDiscreditTelepathySensory Perception Author:Alan Turing
“The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations.” YearsHas BeensSometimesNumbersTheoryMassHundredEvidenceMathematicsBranchesTheoremsComputationExperimental Science Author:G. H. Hardy
“The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work-that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area.” TryingScienceCertainModelsEvidenceAreasAccountsMathematicsWideExpectedObservationMathematicalInterpretationJustificationConstructsMathematical Models Book:The Neumann Compendium Source: The Neumann Compendium
“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him ; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to rest had no tendency to prove them. But he had been endeavouring to give a more active and positive help than this to the cause of what he deemed pure religion.” GivingMeanHelpingScienceCausesInterestPureHusbandProveEvidenceLogicMathematicsActiveDoctrineTendenciesClearing Author:Mary Everest Boole