Quotes for All
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to … Read more
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it. Eugene Wigner
Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation. Fredric Jameson
It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations. Felix Klein
We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology. Deepak Chopra
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. David Hilbert
You can’t. Do you hear me? You think you’ve figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you’re certain. You’re so… sloppy. You don’t know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it’s just evidence. It … Read more
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
No mercy goes unpunished by the angry gods. Critias
ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient. Colin Maclaurin