#thematic

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#been #difficulties #future #mathematics #mistakes

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#lot #mathematics #music

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#anybody #because #conversations #else #field

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#exactly #find #instance #kind #language

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#ends #like #magnificence #mathematics #nile

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

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. ↗

— Graham Greene

#been #being #human #human being #human relations

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#approach #bother #cannot #constructing #describe

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#cannot #mathematical #really #theorem

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street. ↗

— David Hilbert

#complete #considered #explain #first #made