David Roochnik Quotes

Mathematics is realm altogether, one that is cold, hard, objective, necessary, clear and thus utterly non-human. Nonetheless, it is enormously useful as a means, to "turn the soul around from becoming to being."

David Roochnik

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

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Find
  • Mathematics
  • Toronto

• 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

• The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • More
  • Mathematics
  • Abstract

• After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Actor
  • Becoming
  • Privacy

• 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

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

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Good
  • Science
  • Problem

• I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • High
  • Computer
  • Mathematics

• The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

  

  Konrad Zuse
  • Great
  • Humans
  • Danger

• [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 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Jazz
  • Mathematics
  • Blues

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

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Science
  • Mathematics
  • Department

• You need to motivate yourself, no matter what-definitely when things are bad, but also when things are good. Or else, you risk becoming complacent.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Risk
  • Matter
  • Becoming

• It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

  

  Romano Prodi
  • Perfect
  • Constitution
  • Becoming

• Women are looking out for other women and their children. There are some great nannies, and there are some horrible nannies. And I don't blame individual women for wanting to keep an eye on it. I blame the government for not having subsidized high-quality day care. Should it be on a woman no matter how rich she is to be a one-woman show where she finds the nanny, interviews the nanny, does a psychological evaluation of the nanny, supervises the nanny? It's criminal how little America cares about child care, which is to me the pressing issue of our nation.

  

  Wednesday Martin
  • Children
  • Individual
  • Blame

• A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

  

  Confucius
  • Child
  • Great Man
  • Puts

• Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

  

  Juan Williams
  • Understand
  • Ahead
  • Moves

• I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Mathematics is realm altogether, one that is cold, hard, objective, necessary, clear and thus utterly non-human. Nonetheless, it is enormously useful as a means, to "turn the soul around from becoming to being."

  

  David Roochnik
  • Mathematics
  • Becoming
  • Nonetheless