Rene Descartes Quotes

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

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• I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Find
  • Mathematics
  • Toronto

• Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Money
  • Creation
  • Mathematics

• 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 still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'

  

  Nancy Roman
  • School
  • She
  • Remember

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

  

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

• Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

  

  Maimonides
  • Study
  • Logic
  • Perfection

• 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

• It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Turns
  • Esteem

• You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Turns
  • House Of Cards

• Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.

  

  Nelly
  • Reality
  • Turns
  • Millions

• Joy and sadness come by turns.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Joy
  • Sadness
  • Turns

• Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Giving
  • Needs
  • Turns

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

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Good
  • Science
  • Problem

• If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number" nor "size", but always form. And among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.

  

  Alexander Grothendieck
  • Faces
  • Mathematics
  • Fascinate

• You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Sun
  • Stills
  • Shine

• 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

• I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Moments
  • Glad
  • Humiliated

• Not a day goes by that I don't still need to remind myself that my life is not just what's handed to me, nor is it my list of obligations, my accomplishments or failures, or what my family is up to, but rather it is what I choose, day in and day out, to make of it all. When I am able simply to be with things as they are, able to accept the day's challenges without judging, reaching, or wishing for something else, I feel as if I am receiving the privilege, coming a step closer to being myself. It's when I get lost in the day's details, or so caught up in worries about what might be, that I miss the beauty of what is.

  

  Katrina Kenison
  • My Life
  • Choose
  • Be Able

• Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.

  

  Dean Williams
  • Confidence
  • Same
  • Amount

• My life really began when I married my husband.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • Husband
  • My Life

• With me, everything turns into mathematics.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Mathematics
  • Turns