#mathematical

The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress? ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#been #building #complex #equations #got

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#close #each #ever #ignorance #mathematical

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#blank #blank slate #doctrine #equals #fact

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable. ↗

— Abraham Robinson

#as far as #even #facts #far #i

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#famous #independent #intensity #like #love

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. ↗

— William Gibson

#being #billions #children #concepts #consensual

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking. ↗

— Max Bill

#basic #basic idea #closer #comprehensive #idea

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#harmonic #him #mathematical #music #proportion

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

#clumsy #consider #elegance #essential #further

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule. ↗

— George Oppen

#each #mathematical #preceding #pure #rule