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 -
The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.
Naftali Bennett -
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 -
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
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
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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
Andrew Wiles -
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
T Bone Burnett -
When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
Pablo Picasso -
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 -
[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 -
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
Immanuel Kant
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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
Plato -
The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.
Socrates -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
Archimedes
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... we should not be disappointed that everyday language does not work any longer at the apex of our little theory. It is natural; like poetry, the very reason for the existence of mathematics is that it expresses thoughts and feelings which we cannot express in mundane everyday language.
Alexandre Borovik -
I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
Mahatma Gandhi -
What's amazing to me now is that I actually recall fixating on the fact that my thighs a-l-m-o-s-t touched at the top....If I could go back in time and slap my eighteen-year-old self, I would. I would tell her to snap out of it, because that's the best you thighs will ever be. You should take pictures of your thighs right now so you can remember how amazing they were!
Anita Renfroe -
God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
Brennan Manning -
It's kindness that helps people cope with a crisis.
Nicholas Young -
All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
Adrien-Marie Legendre