#thematic

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#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

#mathematics #physics #mathematics

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

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

— Leslie Lamport

#nature

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums. ↗

— David Bowie

#any #behind #concept #heathen #however

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#chess #clarity #example #for example #found

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#brown #clock #correctly #get #good