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Nature's great book is written in mathematics.
-Galileo |
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Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the
processes of digestion?
-Oliver Heaviside
[On being criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations without
understanding how they worked.] |
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What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men,
more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of the mathematics?
-Benjamin Franklin |
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I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of
numbers.
-Sir Thomas Brown |
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Where there is number there is beauty.
-Proclus |
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Courage lies in the wanting to know, which solves nothing, but which has within
itself all solutions.
-Fancoise Mallet-Joris |
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Everything should be as simple as possible-but no simpler.
-Albert Einstein |
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In hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I
have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to
leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
-René Descartes |
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Whenever you can, count.
-Sir Francis Galton |
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A professor is one who can speak on any subject -- for precisely fifty minutes.
-Norbert Wiener |
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Mathematics
is the alphabet with which God has written the universe.
-Galileo Galilei |
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