Crazy people are not
Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Reasoning
The fact is there
The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune. G. H. Hardy
Reasoning based on cost
Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life… Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs. Ezekiel Emanuel
Statistics: The only science
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. Evan Esar
I have found power
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. Euripides
Reason can wrestle and
Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror. Euripides
The miracle of the
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
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
The great mathematician fully,
The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a morass of contradictions is a miracle in itself: certainly it is hard to believe that our reasoning power was brought, by Darwin’s process of natural selection, to the perfection which … Read more
Where faith commences, science
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these … Read more