Quotes About Mathematics

You are thinking about the music, about the mathematics of it. It's time-consuming and energy-consuming at the same time. That's why I take my time off, my family time, as inspirational. I cool off.

The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.

The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.

The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.

If P is a presheaf on C and x E P(C), the value for an arrow f : D -* C in C is called the restriction of x along f, and is often denoted by I or by a dot:

Only in homeopathy do you get specific remedies for people who believe they are made of glass, have a delusion that they are selling green vegetables, or have an aptitude for, or a horror of, mathematics.

Concave functions have slopes that decrease. Concave functions with positive slopes exhibit diminishing returns:

A slightly tipsy mathematician got home at 3 a.m. His wife was upset and yelled, "You're late! You said you'd be home by 11:45." The mathematician replied, "No, I am precisely on time. I said I'd be home by a quarter of twelve.

People assume that if they use higher mathematics and computer models they're doing the Lord's work," observed Buffett's longtime partner, the cerebral Charlie Munger. "They're usually doing the devil's work.

A hundred quintillion googols!

That's how science works. We don't "prove" results like we can in mathematics or logic; we simply add to their plausibility by accumulating more and more evidence.

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway.

Most mathematics deals with static objects such as circles and triangles and numbers. But the great universe out there, not made by us, is in a constant state of what Newton called flux. At every microsecond it changes magically into something different. Calculus is the mathematics of change.

The task of the grounding of Da-sein by way of thinking and poetry overcomes the question of possibility. That question—How is such and such possible?—is the last implementation of mathematical thinking, which is the result of the dominance of the proposition as such, which in turn is the result of the collapse of ???????.

The metre of the poet, the metronome of the musician, the centimetre of the mathematician, are all derived from the same root, metron: measure, measurement.

Una vez hubo un matemático que dijo que el álgebra era una ciencia para la gente perezosa, puesto que uno no conoce el valor de X,pero opera con él como si lo conociese. En nuestro caso, X representa a las masas anónimas, al pueblo. La política es el arte de hacer operaciones con esta X sin preocuparse por conocer su naturaleza real, mientras que hacer historia consiste en dar a X el valor exacto que debe tener en la ecución.

It is obvious', says Hadamard, 'that invention or discovery, be it in mathematics or anywhere else, takes place by combining ideas....The Latin verb cogito for to think etymologically means to shake together. St. Augustine had already noticed that and also observed that intelligo means to select among.