Mathematical Language Quotes

#1. In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in common life, but a-x. Hence mathematical language has great advantages over the common language.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#2. Nature is written in mathematical language.

Galileo Galilei

#3. Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

David Parnas

#4. I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.

Werner Heisenberg

#5. I've always felt a little different than everyone - you know, most of the other kids in my class - and I didn't quite see things the way they did or I didn't experience things the same way they did. I often felt a little bit like an outcast.

Erin Davie

#6. Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

Karrine Steffans

#7. No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Samuel Johnson

#8. Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

Hugh Laurie

#9. The strange word nymphomation, used to denote a complex mathematical procedure where numbers, rather than being added together or multiplied or whatever, were actually allowed to breed with each other to produce new numbers.

Jeff Noon

#10. The outsiders have become kings and queens of the castle. It is a whole lot easier to sit outside the tent and throw firecrackers inside; it is much, much harder to sit inside the tent and govern not only your enemies, but your close friends as well.

Hal Rothman

#11. The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.

Kenneth E. Iverson

#12. I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

Adam Jones

#13. I'm only interested in poetry.

Charles Bukowski

#14. As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

Steven Pinker

#15. If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.

Glenn Frey

#16. Python language is one example. As we noted above, it is also heavily used for mathematical and scientific papers, and will probably dominate that niche for some years yet. 18.3.3

Eric S. Raymond

#17. The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

Alan Dean Foster

#18. So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

Tycho Brahe

#19. All the world's an empty place when one voice weeps uncomforted.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#20. Language is the work of man, of a being from whom permanence and stability can not be derived.

Samuel Johnson

#21. And, I was really impressed with how beautiful our country was and how friendly the people were.

Duane G. Carey

#22. Jessie J is a great, great girl. I'm a friend and have always been a fan of hers. I'm happy to see her doing her thing.

Rita Ora

#23. Do not hope to understand the source of my understanding.

Thomas Fitzgerald

#24. The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of mathematical notation which make it such an effective tool of thought.

Kenneth E. Iverson

#25. One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll beproving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

Anton Chekhov

#26. Destruction is creation. Become as a little child. Language as space, a kind of mathematical notation, geometric locations in the lab of memory. Reading. Maps. Codes, substitutions, the secret names of things. The glorious inrush of a word. The joy of chatter. Every color's wavelength, by number.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#27. Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

G.H. Hardy

#28. The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

Jorge Luis Borges

#29. My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

David Bohm