Mathematical Quotes

• What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Reality
  • Perspective
  • Higher

• Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Minds
  • Mathematical
  • Intuitive

• The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world construed by the abstractions which the sense-organs immediately furnish. To suppose that the "material mode" is a primitive and groping attempt at physical conception is a fatal error in epistemology.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • World
  • Real
  • Physics

• Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • Mathematical
  • Poetic
  • Homeopathy

• In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.

  

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
  • Principles
  • Produce
  • Investigation

• Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Inspiration
  • Mathematical

• Also, it's not the mathematical skill that's critical to winning, it's the discipline of being able to stick to the system. There are very few people who can withstand the losses emotionally and still stick with the system. Probably only one in five hundred people has the necessary discipline to be successful.

  

  Blair Hull
  • Winning
  • Successful
  • Discipline

• You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

  

  Humphrey Carpenter
  • Ideas
  • Term
  • Invention

• Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions.

  

  Wassily Leontief
  • Assumption
  • Conclusion
  • Irrelevant

• The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder that Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz erected in order to scale the heavens rests upon a continually shifting, unstable foundation.

  

  Morris Kline
  • Reality
  • Heaven
  • Distribution

• The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it to vanish from being. Mathematical propositions, if true, are eternal verities.

  

  Cassius Jackson Keyser
  • World
  • Independent
  • Matter

• Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.

  

  Edmund Hlawka
  • Mathematical

• ...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or of the spatial properties of relationships of actual bodies is intended, and any similarities between the primitive concepts and their customary geometrical connotations are purely coincidental.

  

  Carl Gustav Hempel
  • Body
  • Property
  • Geometry

• Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Space
  • Humans
  • Views

• The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is causing such hysteria, we have only a movie made by a politician and mathematical models whose results change drastically when you change a few of the arbitrarily selected variables.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Differences
  • Evidence
  • Politician

• In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science can only be satisfactorily treated on an explicitly mathematical basis.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Writing
  • Wish
  • Mathematician

• Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from the phenomena of motions and then to demonstrate the other phenomena from these forces. It is to these ends that the general propositions in books 1 and 2 are directed, while in book 3 our explanation of the system of the world illustrates these propositions.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Philosophy
  • Principle
  • Mathematical

• More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective calculation. Their definitions led to the creation of the digital computer, an interesting example of thought bending matter to its ends. Interesting Computer Ancient Creation Mathematical Sixty Algorithms Bending Defining Definitions Digital Ends Example Humans Ideas Matter Years Calculations Concepts Years Ago

  

  David Berlinski
  • Interesting
  • Creation
  • Computer

• Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

  

  David Parnas
  • Easier
  • Code
  • Requirements

• The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

  

  Henry Flynt
  • Art
  • Purpose
  • Logical

• If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Ridiculous
  • Conclusion
  • Definitions

• Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and they are all tried all the time. When you are stuck, the answer cannot be one of these, because you will have tried these right away...The next scheme, the new discovery, is going to be made in a completely different way.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Thinking
  • Answers
  • Discovery

• Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Logic

• It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

  

  Rita Coolidge
  • Sense
  • Mathematical

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