#thematic

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

— Galileo Galilei

#again #beginning #follow #i #mathematics

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#beauty #different #elegance #historians #intuition

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation. ↗

— Charles Hermite

#am #both #creation #divine #entire

As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#bring #each #effective #had #i

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. ↗

— Felix Klein

#applications #archimedes #equal #equal measure #greatest

My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#early #education #english #foreign #foreign languages

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance. ↗

— Morris Kline

#mathematical #statistics #theory

I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#extraordinary #find #fortunate #i #mathematics

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination. ↗

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

#amount #any #arid #arithmetic #confuse

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#ever #genius #i #life #like