Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Mathematics is the true language that the universe is written in. They key to understanding the world around us.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Algebras deal not with laws of number, but with such laws of the human thinking machinery as have been discovered in the course of investigations on numbers. Plane geometry deals with such laws of thought as were discovered by men intent on finding out how to measure surface; and solid geometry with such additional laws of thought as were discovered when men began to extend geometry into three dimensions.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

I like science and mathematics. When I say mathematics, I don't mean algebra or math in that sense, but the mathematics of things.

Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to no Rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning, and when they cannot, it's a sign our Knowledge of them is very small and confus'd; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it's as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark when you have a Candle standing by you.

There are no sects in geometry.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.