Mathematical Quotes - Page 33

• I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.

  Eva Amurri

  Brain, Astronaut, Wanted

  "Talking About Teaching with Eva Amurri Martino". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2012.

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• Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

  Warren Buffett

  Law, Bulls, Bears

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• The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

  Joseph Addison

  Perfection, Soul, Touching

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.52

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• What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.

  Boris Pasternak

  Writing, Symphony, People

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• The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus.

  Celia Green

  Science, Supposing That, Theoretical Physics

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• Seurat and Signac mixed paintings with the dry and abstract laws of science. This approach, in my opinion, usually strays from the purpose of art in general. Because it means that one cannot expect from an artifact, that is created with mathematical laws, to establish an improbable and irrational relationship between the work and the viewer.

  Guity Novin

  Art, Mean, Law

  Negin magazine, No 77, p. 57, 1971.

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• Euclid manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to the study of finite numbers. This is exactly what contemporary mathematical analysis does.

  Lucio Russo

  Finite Number, Numbers, Doe

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• It's not the mathematical skill that's critical to winning; it's the discipline of being able to stick to the system.

  Blair Hull

  Winning, Skills, Discipline

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• What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the principle of mathematical induction. The validity of these premises is an entirely independent matter which can safely be left to philosophers.

  Timothy Gowers

  Independent, Principles, Doe

  Timothy Gowers (2010). “Mathematics”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Gains, Assumption, Individual

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth-diamond truth; and God is my 'right hand man'.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Cutting, Men, Errors

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• I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.

  Portia Doubleday

  Mind, Spatial, Literal

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• We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we can describe it in precise mathematical terms, and as a commodity we can measure, market, regulate and tax it.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Energy, Information, Commodity

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Lying, Land, Numbers

  "Information: The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2004.

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• This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature in terms of clearly understood mathematical laws; but perhaps comparisons are the best we can hope for.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Ideas, Law, Physics

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.203, Harvard University Press

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• Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Two, Common Sense, Mind

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.204, Harvard University Press

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• The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Plato, History, Secret

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.449

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• Nutrition is not a mathematical equation in which two plus two is four. The food we put in our mouths doesn't control our nutrition-not entirely. What our bodies do with that food does.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Two, Mathematical Equations, Doe

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.54, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics.

  John von Neumann

  Algorithms, Physics, Mathematics

  John Von Neumann, F. Bródy, Tibor Vámos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.453, World Scientific

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• Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.

  Christopher Wren

  Men, Mind, Foundation

  James ELMES, Sir Christopher Wren (1852). “Sir Christopher Wren and his times. With illustrative sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished personages in the seventeenth century”, p.100

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• Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as no empirical law can ever be, philosophers have discovered that they are not absolutely novel - instead, they are tautological.

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  Law, May, Rooms

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• The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Language, Mathematics, Subtle

  Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “Selected Non-Fictions”, Penguin Group USA

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• Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical text, one can get an output text which seemingly carries new knowledge. The basic examples are furnished by scientific or technological calculations: general laws plus initial conditions produce predictions, often only after time-consuming and computer-aided work. One can say that the input contains an implicit knowledge which is thereby made explicit.

  IU?. I. Manin

  Law, Games, Peculiar

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• The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its properties, or interrelations between various objects. The goal of a proof is to make such a statement convincing by presenting a reasoning subdivided into small steps each of which is justified as an "elementary" convincing argument.

  IU?. I. Manin

  Goal, Definitions, Steps

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• In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example, without any professional credentials in mathematics; in this subject I am completely self-taught, and not very well taught.

  Noam Chomsky

  Self, Done, Fields

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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