Mathematical Logic Quotes - Page 3

• The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Education, Math

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• All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Math, Science, Ideas

  Bertrand Russell (2001). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.45, Psychology Press

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• I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

  Winston Churchill

  Math, Feelings, Let It Go

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Math, Men, Mad

  Thomas Hobbes (1845). ““The” English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.445

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• If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

  Alfred Renyi

  Happiness, Math, Unhappy

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• As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

  Arthur Cayley

  Beauty, Math, Theory

  Arthur Cayley (1895). “The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley”

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• Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Knowledge, Math, Science

  Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

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• Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

  Plato

  Plato, Math, Amusing

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• What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore their study was untainted by inaccuracies of perception. This meant he could discover truths which were independent of opinion of prejudice and which were more absolute than any previous knowledge.

  Simon Singh

  Independent, Ideas, Numbers

  "Fermat's Last Theorem". Book by Simon Singh, 1997.

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• Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Mean, Math

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.626, Psychology Press

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• Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

  Anish Kapoor

  Kind, Form, Geometric

  Interview with John Tusa, anishkapoor.com.

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• I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!

  Hilary Putnam

  Writing, Thinking, Looks

  "What Philosophers Think" by Julian Baggini, Jeremy Stangroom, (p. 233), 2005.

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• Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Wisconsin, Undergraduate, Courses

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• It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.

  Aimee Bender

  Life, Sadness, Loss

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• I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

  Bertrand Russell

  Use, Plain English, Ifs

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.66, Routledge

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• Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Book, Two

  "Recollections of Wittgenstein". Book by Rush Rhees, 1984.

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