Mathematical Principles Quotes

Nature is written in mathematical language.

Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.

All science requires mathematics.

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

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

Scientology is not written with disrespect toward God. It doesn't worship something that is evil. It is scientific, mathematical, and spiritual. The black community has to check it out and see what's there. I'm not saying it's for everyone, but you have to take a look.

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

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.

Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of human study will be enabled more effectually than heretofore to keep pace with our theoretical knowledge of its principles and laws, through the complete control which the engine gives us over the executive manipulation of algebraical and numerical symbols.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight - brilliant, sharp but cold ... thus we are clearest where knowledge matters least: in mathematics, especially number theory.

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

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.

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

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.