Antonin Artaud Quotes

Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.

There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

Science is organized knowledge.

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes. We just don't vote on quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, why the sky is blue, or anything else.

And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities...?

Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created.

All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests and there is no reason to believe that there is any flaw in it. We all know how to use it and how to apply it to problems; and so we have learned to live with the fact that nobody can understand it.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

Physics and those parts of other fields that grow out of physics - chemistry, the structure of big molecules - in those domains, there is a lot of progress. In many other domains, there is very little progress in developing real scientific understanding.

There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time ... On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly because I wanted to understand them. The study of quantum physics helped me to have a deeper understanding of the Secret, on an energetic level.