The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful..
From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then….
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not….
What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions,….
I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning ….
Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics..
No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard..
With me, everything turns into mathematics..
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset..
... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing….
For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher..
In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, w….
The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune wit….
I actually don't believe that everybody should necessarily try to learn to code. I think it's reasonably specialized, and nobody really expects most ….
Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how well th….
Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three..
I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure..
There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your hands. T….
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics..
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pe….
When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective..