Adrien-Marie Legendre Quotes

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

Adrien-Marie Legendre

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• Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Mathematics
  • Taught
  • Pure

• The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Science
  • Mathematics

• Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Words
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Always
  • Idea
  • Mathematics

• The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Step
  • Mathematics
  • Elegance

• The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Good
  • Science
  • Problem

• For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • History
  • Language

• When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Wanted
  • Aim
  • Discovering

• You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Might
  • Generations
  • Jokes

• [All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which Newton discovered with the aid of the calculus, is to have a sufficient number of observations and a mathematics that is complex enough.

  

  Marquis de Condorcet
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Enough

• In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Science
  • Mathematics
  • Department

• Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

  

  Plato
  • Mathematics
  • Here
  • Ignorant

• The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.

  

  Socrates
  • Understanding
  • Ethics
  • Mathematics

• There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion there would be neither mathematics nor natural science.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Music
  • Science
  • Passion

• But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reason
  • Mathematics
  • Could

• Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • School
  • Philosophy
  • Mathematics

• Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

  

  Archimedes
  • Mathematics
  • Secrets
  • Pure Love

• No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Ethics
  • Mathematics
  • Command

• I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

  

  Alan Lee
  • Learning
  • Drawing
  • Discovering

• The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Age

• If you increase the number of rockets you build and you buy, then it's the scale of the economy, the price is going to come down. It may not come down in order of magnitude, but if several commercial ventures start being successful and there becomes a bigger market for these rockets, the price will naturally come down a bit. That's why I think Excalibur Almaz, we're a little bit unique in that we don't look at our so-called competition with disdain, we want them to succeed and it needs to have more than one player. Even if we are successful, we couldn't handle the entire market ourselves.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Why
  • May
  • Player

• Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Despair
  • Victims
  • Victors

• All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

  

  Adrien-Marie Legendre
  • Mathematics
  • Discovering
  • Admissible