“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
“...All the wonders of our universe can in effect be captured by simple rules, yet ... there can be no way to know all the consequences of these rules, except in effect just to watch and see how they unfold.” KnowsWayScienceUniverseSimpleWonderWatchesEffectsConsequenceMathematicsCaptured Author:Stephen Wolfram
“Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.” WayThreeWonderBoysWonderfulMathematicsCome UpDividesTricycles Author:Earl Wilson
“That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to take. You'd be a fool if you didn't follow it. Perhaps it's like solving a difficult question in pure mathematics. There must be a moment when the solution is so simple and evident that you wonder why you hadn't come upon it before. When you do come upon it, you know it in the deepest part of your being. It carries its own logic.” IfsKnowsWritingMomentsDifficultRealizingSimpleWonderNovelPathFoolPureSolutionsLogicMathematicsCarrieEvidentDifficult Questions Author:Don DeLillo
“It is the exact experience of mathematics. Not merely the adding up of your grocery bill, or the daily uses that we make of number. But the great concept of a universal exactitude, that numbers are an instrument of magic. And by means of them, men can unlock all the wonders of the world.” MenWorldMeanUseNumbersWonderMagicConceptsUniversalMathematicsInstrumentsBillsGroceriesWonder Of The WorldExactitude Author:Manly Hall