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Thoughts on Mathematics and Science.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most
discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
Isaac Asimov
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the
centre of gravity of the universe.
Thomas Carlyle
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our
minds, space has a reality outside our minds.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Steven Wright
As are the crests on the heads of peacocks, as are the gems on the hoods of
cobras, so is mathematics at the top of all sciences.
The Yajurveda, c. 600 bce
For he who knows not mathematics cannot know any other science; what is
more, he cannot discover his own ignorance, or find it's proper remedy.
Roger Bacon
Mathematics is both the door and the key to the sciences.
Roger Bacon
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei
Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other
guidance we can have.
Charles Darwin
In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble
reasoning of an individual.
Galileo Galilei
In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics
must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
Auguste Comte
While the Mathematician is busy with deductions from general propositions,
the Biologist is more especially occupied with observation, comparison, and
those processes which lead to general propositions.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Mathematics is the science of what is clear by itself.
Carl Jacobi
The theory of groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something
to something and then compares the results with the result of doing the same
thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.
James Newman
The things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of
mathematics.
Roger Bacon
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment ... we are told
that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billion of molecules in a drop of
water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science
eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
Alfred North Whitehead
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
Such is the advantage of a well-constructed language that its simplified
notation often becomes the source of profound theories.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Plutarch
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is:
"some do, some don't."
Ernest Rutherford
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that
our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
Edward P. Tryon
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most
discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
Isaac Asimov
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the
centre of gravity of the universe.
Thomas Carlyle
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our
minds, space has a reality outside our minds.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Steven Wright
As are the crests on the heads of peacocks, as are the gems on the hoods of
cobras, so is mathematics at the top of all sciences.
The Yajurveda, c. 600 bce
For he who knows not mathematics cannot know any other science; what is
more, he cannot discover his own ignorance, or find it's proper remedy.
Roger Bacon
Mathematics is both the door and the key to the sciences.
Roger Bacon
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei
Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other
guidance we can have.
Charles Darwin
In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble
reasoning of an individual.
Galileo Galilei
In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics
must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
Auguste Comte
While the Mathematician is busy with deductions from general propositions,
the Biologist is more especially occupied with observation, comparison, and
those processes which lead to general propositions.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Mathematics is the science of what is clear by itself.
Carl Jacobi
The theory of groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something
to something and then compares the results with the result of doing the same
thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.
James Newman
The things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of
mathematics.
Roger Bacon
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment ... we are told
that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billion of molecules in a drop of
water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science
eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
Alfred North Whitehead
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
Such is the advantage of a well-constructed language that its simplified
notation often becomes the source of profound theories.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Plutarch
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is:
"some do, some don't."
Ernest Rutherford
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that
our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
Edward P. Tryon
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