FAVORITE QUOTES - MATH
Mathematics, belongs to every enquiry;
moral as well as physical.
Even the rules of logic, by which it is rigidly bound,
could not be deduced without its aid.
Benjamin Peirce
Perhaps posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.
- Pierre de Fermat
Life is good for only two things,
discovering mathematics, and teaching mathematics.
~ Siméon Denis Poisson ~
Philosophy [the universe] is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes.
We cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in
which it is written. The book is written in the mathematical language ... without whose
help it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word of it, and without which one
wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.
~ Galileo Galilei ~
The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics, the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word. ~ Michael Kline, Mathematical thought from ancient to modern times ~
The shape of things to come, is written in the geometry of creation. It is staring you right in the face. ~ Thoth ~
Click NumbersMathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics.
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect. Geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.
Clouds are not spheres,
mountains are not cones,
coastlines are not circles,
bark is not smooth,
nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
~ Benoit Mandelbrot ~
There is no royal road to geometry.
~ Euclid to King Ptolemy I ~
Number rules the universe. Number is the within of all things. Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons. Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent. There is geometry in the humming of the strings.
~ Pythagoras ~ Pythagorean Theorem Good Website
Pythagoreans having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things could be represented by numbers, and that the whole cosmos consists of a scale and a number.
~ Aristotle ~
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