Math Quotes

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David Hilbert

Profession: mathematician.
Born 1862, Konigsberg, Prussia.
Died 1943, Gottingen, Germany.

"Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole,
an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon
the connection of its parts."

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David Hilbert

The infinite!
No other question
has ever moved
so profoundly
the spirit of man.

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Thomas Hobbes​

Profession: philosopher. Born 1588. Died 1679.

"Geometry is the only science that it hath
pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind."

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Charles Babbage ​

Profession: logician.
Born 1791, London, England. Died 1871, London, England.

On two occasions I have been asked,
“Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?”

"I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could
provoke such a question."

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Aristotle
Greek philosopher, scientist, physician, 384 BC-322 BC

“The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics,
not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it,
they fancied that the principles of mathematics
were the principles of all things.”

Aristotle

Pythagorus​

 

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Harvey Jackins

"If you don’t read poetry how the hell can you solve equations?"

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Carl Jacobi

Profession: mathematician.
Born 1804, Potsdam, Prussia. Died 1851, Berlin, Germany.

"Mathematics is the science of what is clear by itself."

 

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Carl Jacobi

"The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit."

 

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Carl Jacobi

"[The] sole end of science is the honor of the human mind, and ...
under this title a question about numbers is worth as much
as a question about the system of the world."

 

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William James
Profession: writer. Born 1842. Died 1910.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure,
passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

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Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.

 

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Richard Feynman

For a successful technology,
reality must take precedence over public relations,

for Nature cannot be fooled.

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Richard P. Feynman

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is,
it doesn't matter how smart you are.
If it doesn't agree with experiment,
it's wrong.

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Richard P. Feynman

I was born not knowing and have
had only a little time to change that
here and there.

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Richard P. Feynman

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns,
so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the
organization of the entire tapestry.

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Nicolai Lobachevsky
Profession: mathematician.


There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract,
which may not someday be applied to the phenomena of the real world.

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Arthur Loeb

Space is not a passive vacuum,
but has properties that impose
powerful constraints on any structure
that inhabits it.

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John Locke

"Logic is the anatomy of thought."

love and appreciation

Dr. Emoto - Water Crystal pictures
these water crystals formed in response to words
that were taped on their containers.

The consciousness of water and the energy of the
words - caused these water crystals to form

This crystal formed being exposed to the words 'Cherry Blossom'

These crystals are indeed showing the 'anatomy of thought'​

 

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John Michel


"The mathematical rules of the universe are visible
to men in the form of beauty."

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Adams, Douglas
(1952 - 2001)

"The first nonabsolute number is the number of people for whom the table is reserved. This will vary during the course of the first three telephone calls to the restaurant, and then bear no apparent relation to the number of people who actually turn up, or to the number of people who subsequently join them after the show/match/party/gig, or to the number of people who leave when they see who else has turned up.
The second nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a recipriversexcluson, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive. Recipriversexclusons now play a vital part in many branches of math, including statistics and accountancy and also form the basic equations used to engineer the Somebody Else's Problem field.
The third and most mysterious piece of nonabsoluteness of all lies in the relationship between the number of items on the bill, the cost of each item, the number of people at the table and what they are each prepared to pay for. (The number of people who have actually brought any money is only a subphenomenon of this field.)"

Life, the Universe and Everything. New York: Harmony Books, 1982.

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