Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Quotes
Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Quotes to Explore
I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.
Walter Kohn
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
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
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
T Bone Burnett
Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.
L Peter Deutsch
[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
The founding fathers of this alliance would be proud of what we have done and what we are doing, ... Fifty years after its creation, the Atlantic alliance continues to demonstrate that for us, values have meaning.
Javier Solana
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
Immanuel Kant
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.
Johannes Kepler
Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.
Willard Van Orman Quine
The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of mathematics, and that theory entails that numbers exist, then you have ample reason to accept that numbers exist. The argument affirms the antecedent of this conditional, and concludes that you have ample reason to believe that numbers exist. What is striking about this argument is that it seems to show that the empirical reasons that suffice for accepting a scientific theory also suffice for accepting a metaphysical claim.
Elliott Sober
Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I should not believe in a God who does not dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such thinking is exceedingly dangerous. God’s judgement is without partiality. He never overlooks our sin. He never decides not to bother, since the sin is only a small one. No, God hates sin intensely whenever and wherever He finds it.
Jerry Bridges
Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
