#math

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#course #expected #i #interesting #languages

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration. ↗

— William Petty

#demonstration #hope #i #living #man

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#always #astronaut #attended #based #because

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#logic #mathematics #nothing #specialised #structures

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#chance #children #development #forth #knowledge

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#affirm #beings #epistemology #into #linguistic

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. ↗

— Albert Pike

#body #combination #gold #justice #light

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. ↗

— Plato

#ever #hardly #i #known #mathematician

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible? ↗

— Henri Poincare

#infallible #mathematicians #need #themselves

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#know #machines #mathematician #more #need