{"quotes":[{"text":"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.","author":"Paul Dirac","tags":["beautiful","mathematics "],"id":747,"author_id":"Paul+Dirac"},{"text":"If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!","author":"Bill Gaede","tags":["einstein","gaede","god","hawking","mathematics","newton","physics","science"],"id":1341,"author_id":"Bill+Gaede"},{"text":"For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?","author":"Richard Courant","tags":["experience","math","mathematics","philosophy","question","scholars","science"],"id":1645,"author_id":"Richard+Courant"},{"text":"At his 'World of Physics' Web site, Eric W. Weisstein notes that the fine structure constant continues to fascinate numerologists, who have claimed that connections exist between alpha, the Cheops pyramid, and Stonehenge!","author":"Clifford A. Pickover","tags":["fine-structure-constant","mathematics","physics","science"],"id":1900,"author_id":"Clifford+A.+Pickover"},{"text":"And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.","author":"Galileo Galilei","tags":["mathematics","plato","science"],"id":3095,"author_id":"Galileo+Galilei"},{"text":"Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.","author":"Elbert Hubbard","tags":["business","guess","math","mathematics","science","success"],"id":3284,"author_id":"Elbert+Hubbard"},{"text":"...It would not be quite right to say that the problem is unsolvable in principle; only so complicated that it is not worth anybody’s time to think about it. So what do we do?In probability theory there is a very clever trick for handling a problem that becomes too difficult. We just solve it anyway by:(1)  making it still harder;(2)  redefining what we mean by ‘solving’ it, so that it becomes something we can do;(3)  inventing a dignified and technical-sounding word to describe this procedure, which has the psychological effect of concealing the real nature of what we have done, and making it appear respectable.","author":"E. T. Jaynes","tags":["mathematics"],"id":5011,"author_id":"E.+T.+Jaynes"},{"text":"Furious, the beast writhed and wriggled its iterated integrals beneath the King’s polynomial blows, collapsed into an infinite series of indeterminate terms, then got back up by raising itself to the nth power, but the King so belabored it with differentials and partial derivatives that its Fourier coefficients all canceled out (see Riemann’s Lemma), and in the ensuing confusion the constructors completely lost sight of both King and beast. So they took a break, stretched their legs, had a swig from the Leyden jug to bolster their strength, then went back to work and tried it again from the beginning, this time unleashing their entire arsenal of tensor matrices and grand canonical ensembles, attacking the problem with such fervor that the very paper began to smoke. The King rushed forward with all his cruel coordinates and mean values, stumbled into a dark forest of roots and logarithms, had to backtrack, then encountered the beast on a field of irrational numbers (F1) and smote it so grievously that it fell two decimal places and lost an epsilon, but the beast slid around an asymptote and hid in an n-dimensional orthogonal phase space, underwent expansion and came out, fuming factorially, and fell upon the King and hurt him passing sore. But the King, nothing daunted, put on his Markov chain mail and all his impervious parameters, took his increment Δk to infinity and dealt the beast a truly Boolean blow, sent it reeling through an x-axis and several brackets—but the beast, prepared for this, lowered its horns and—wham!!—the pencils flew like mad through transcendental functions and double eigentransformations, and when at last the beast closed in and the King was down and out for the count, the constructors jumped up, danced a jig, laughed and sang as they tore all their papers to shreds, much to the amazement of the spies perched in the chandelier-—perched in vain, for they were uninitiated into the niceties of higher mathematics and consequently had no idea why Trurl and Klapaucius were now shouting, over and over, “Hurrah! Victory!!","author":"Stanisław Lem","tags":["beast","king","mathematics"],"id":5818,"author_id":"Stanis%C5%82aw+Lem"},{"text":"In a Sense, we all are Time Travelers! We are Surviving each and every Active Time-Point in this Timeline.......","author":"Aldrin Mathew","tags":["albert-einstein","mathematics","numbers","science","stephen-hawking","time","time-machine","time-travel"],"id":6407,"author_id":"Aldrin+Mathew"},{"text":"I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a Question of lines, planes, and bodies.","author":"Baruch Spinoza","tags":["bodies","emotions","extension","god","human-being","mathematics","mind","natural-laws","nature","passions","thought","world"],"id":6960,"author_id":"Baruch+Spinoza"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":508,"pages":51,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}