#mathematics

A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic... ↗

— Bill Gaede

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No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. ↗

— Albert Camus

#suicide #mathematics

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness! ↗

— Roald Dahl

#mathematics

I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged. ↗

— Roger Jones

#mathematics #statistics #mathematics

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#gaede #god #mathematics #peer-review #physics

A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good. ↗

— Amy Summers

#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny #humor

Life is about solving for x ↗

— Jane Lescarbeau

#mathematics #philosophy #solve #life

Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your mathematics is. ↗

— Leslie Lamport

#nature

They shouldn't be allowed to teach math so early in the morning. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#math

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#go #i #into #leave #led