#mathematics

Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#love

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#gaede #god #mathematics #peer #physics

There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all natural things [than mathematics]. [It interprets] all phenomena by the same language, as if to attest the unity and simplicity of the plan of the universe, and to make still more evident that unchangeable order which presides over all natural causes ↗

— Joseph Fourier

#mathematics #religion #science #nature

It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#gaede #general-relativity #mathematics #quantum-mechanics #religion

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ↗

— John Adams

#i #liberty #mathematics #may #must

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#blair #bush #caves #law #literature

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#him #man #mathematics #study #wandering

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. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#brain #count #easiest #fact #how

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

— Roger Bacon

#knowledge #known #made #mathematics #things

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#mathematics #physics #pleased #university