#math

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. ↗

— Marquis De Custine

#circumstances #complicated #human #human society #mathematical

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself. ↗

— Chris Stein

#early #feeling #felt #having #i

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#had #hard #i #kind #made

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#mathematics #problems #science #simple #solutions

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#improvement #like #managers #mathematicians #want

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#better #branches #difficult #had #mathematicians

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#creating #god #mathematics #used #world

The mathematics is not there till we put it there. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#put #till

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#human #human thought #ladder #mathematician #reached

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#aftermath #because #bush #connected #false