Quotes About Equation

An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.

No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

It's like a mathematical law, Grace.

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.

The expression e=mc2 is the ultimate statement in bounce per ounce.

Paul Dirac was notoriously a man of few words. Dick Feynman told the story that when he first met Dirac at a conference, Dirac said after a long silence, "I have an equation; do you have one too?

Prof. Gilley declares that my "central lie," my "first and biggest deceit," is to equate the État independant du Congo, the regime King Leopold II of Belgium controlled for 23 years, with colonialism.

My question was:How did I go from merely seeing the dirty French Santa in a bar to being in his hotel room the next morning? And this presented me with an actual equation. How did one plus one equal old French Santa?

I believe that courage is the sum of strength and wisdom. You take away wisdom from the equation - courage may turn to rage.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keeping your mouth shut." —Albert Einstein

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keeping your mouth shut.

Er steckte den Zwanzigmarkschein ein. Jetzt saß die Mutter im Zug, und bald musste sie den anderen Zwanzigmarkschein finden, den er ihr in die Handtasche gelegt hatte. Mathematisch gesehen war das Ergebnis gleich Null. Denn nun besaßen beide dieselbe Summe wie vorher. Aber gute Taten lassen sich nicht stornieren. Die moralische Gleichung verläuft anders als die arithmetische.

The combined speed of any object's motion through space and its motion through time is always precisely equal to the speed of light.

you would expect that at the ultimate base of Nature, we will surely find a principle which is simple, beautiful, and elegant. As the great physicist John Wheeler said: "To my mind there must be, at the bottom of it all, not an equation, but an utterly simple idea. And to me that idea, when we finally discover it, will be so compelling, so inevitable, that we will say to one another: 'Oh, how beautiful. How could it have been otherwise?

A film is between you and the audience. The distributors are the only people in between us. It is a straight equation.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.

obelus, the mathematical sign for division,

The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less.