“The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of impressions that the light in the universe furnishes to my consciousness as an artisan which I try, by imposing an Order, and Art, an appropriate representative life, to organize.” TryingMeanArtLightSpiritOrderChoicesUniverseSpeakConsciousnessHarmonyMathematicsImpressionBotherAppropriateRepresentativesOrganizeImposingArtisans Author:Robert Delaunay
“You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.” PeopleKnowsHumansMeanUseFeelingsScienceSpeakLanguageGrowsWonderKnowledgeWonderfulBuildingClothesMathematicsPoolHuman ExperienceEcstatic Author:Steve Jobs
“I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.” MeanTwoWholeHalfDoubtImpossibleEqualMathematicsMathProofLawyerMathematicalProgrammingMathematicianMathematical Proof Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss
“Roger Bacon, a disciple of the Arabs, also insisted on the primary necessity of Mathematics, without which no other science can be known; yet by Mathematics it is clear that he meant something very different from what we mean, including under that head even dancing, singing, gesticulation, and performance on musical instruments.” MeanDifferentKnownClearSingingPerformancesMathematicsInstrumentsDancingMusicalIncludingPrimariesDiscipleRogerMusical Instruments Book:The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte Source: The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte