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Scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.
— James Bryant Conant
The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.
— Henry Flynt
A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.
— Augustus De Morgan
Sense of beauty, perception, and the mathematical universe are all part of the same texture.
— Neeti Sinha
Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
— Blaise Pascal
Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.
— Al Nichol
The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.
— Napoleon Hill
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
— Thomas Carlyle
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
— Paul Dirac
The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them.
— Sun Tzu
If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.
— Brian Kernighan
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.
— Robert Recorde
A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.
— Bill Gaede
I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam,
— Charles Babbage
The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.
— Peter Tait
A beautiful problem is no joke!
— Marvin Knopp
A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Inequality is the cause of all local movements.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
— James F. Cooper
Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence.
— Orrin Woodward
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.
— John Edensor Littlewood
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
— Joseph Glanvill
Somewhere we had either made a mathematical error or made an assumption that to not justified.
— Anonymous
A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
— Donald Knuth
The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
— Alan Greenspan
I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.
— Albert Einstein
Experimentation without mathematical explanation is blind; mathematical explanation without experimentation is empty.
— Bill Bryson
Love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.
— Josephine Winslow Johnson
Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.
— Bill Gaede
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.
— Hermann Weyl
The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
— Bill Gates
Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.
— Steve Winwood
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
— John Locke
A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.
— James Joseph Sylvester
It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.
— Philip Emeagwali
The perfection of mathematical beauty is such ... that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.
— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
— David Hilbert
But if two and two and fifty make a million, ...
— Pete Seeger
Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.
— Ian Stewart
The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.
— Edsger Dijkstra
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
And it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
Algebraic to the limit!
— Ryan North
Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
— Alonzo Church
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.
— John Arbuthnot
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
— Steven Pinker
Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.
— Chen-Ning Yang
Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
— Isaac Newton
A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.
— John B. S. Haldane
There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
— Anton Chekhov
Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?
— Jacques Hadamard
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
— Thomas Hobbes
I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.
— Portia Doubleday
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.
— Ronald Fisher
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.
— Warren Buffett
Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I never use a computer.
— Andrew Wiles
Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.
— Amit Abraham
Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.
— Peter Debye
Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.
— Margot Asquith
I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.
— William Petty
The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero.
— Louis Bachelier
Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.
— Stephen Hawking
A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.
— Augusten Burroughs
But a human, in its own small way, was a kind of miraculous achievement, in mathematical terms.
— Matt Haig
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ...
— Farkas Bolyai
We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.
— David Hilbert
Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.
— David Parnas
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!
— Hilary Putnam
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
I don't believe in natural science.
— Kurt Godel
It is really this "mathematical mindset" that seems to be most useful to those who are not trained to think as mathematicians.
— Edward Frenkel