top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
Standard
Customized
More
"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Few rounds.... I am damn good mathematician!2 999 999 999 999 999 999 + 11 999 999 999 999 999 999 = 14 999 999 999 999 999 998."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control."
Nature
"Who will observe the observers?"
Will
"Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight."
Debate
"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
Body
"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and.""
Forget
"We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature."
Nature
"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
Mathematics
"Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo."
Nature
"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
May
"It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them."
Law
bottom of page