Mathematical Reality Quotes

#1. True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they will be integrated into the mathematical reality merely as appearances!

Jacques Ellul

#2. 317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way.

G.H. Hardy

#3. Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider the formula not the fact as the physical reality.

Lord Kelvin

#4. Healthy bodies make healthy babies so you have nothing to lose!

Heidi Murkoff

#5. Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

Jon Favreau

#6. You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.

Hermann Hesse

#7. Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

Fulton J. Sheen

#8. But listen here, there ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity.

Robert Penn Warren

#9. It would please him well enough to amount to no more in the end than a single great organ of detection, reaching into blankness for a clue.

Michael Chabon

#10. Addictive personalities can latch on to anything: drugs, alcohol, sex, people ... what if you become addicted to me?"
"I am already addicted to you, Beatrice. Only you're far more dangerous than cocaine.

Sylvain Reynard

#11. If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

Edmund Husserl

#12. The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, will fit the facts better than others, and then the geometry which provides that particular map will be the geometry most important for applied mathematics.

G.H. Hardy

#13. Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

Max Tegmark

#14. What's your name, pictsie?' 'Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin Mac Feegle, mistress.' 'You're very small, aren't you?' 'Only for my height, mistress.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Mathematics is an escape from reality.

Stanislaw Ulam

#16. I do not know if God is a mathematician, but mathematics is the loom upon which God weaves the fabric of the universe....The fact that reality can be described or approximated by simple mathematical expressions suggests to me that nature has mathematics at its core.

Clifford A. Pickover

#17. It turned out keeping reality bound by mathematical laws was a useful hack preventing the Devil from existing.

Scott Alexander

#18. What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

Terence McKenna

#19. If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.

Anthony De Mello

#20. The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and 'pure geometries' are independent of lecture rooms, or of any other detail of the physical world.

G.H. Hardy

#21. Sense of beauty, perception, and the mathematical universe are all part of the same texture.

Neeti Sinha

#22. I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

Leonard Cohen

#23. I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

David Antin

#24. Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

Bertrand Russell

#25. He means that even though there is a mathematical possibility that dinosaurs and humans coexist, that possible reality would collapse because the likelihood is so astronomically small.

Liana Brooks

#26. 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

#27. Let's face it. Chocolate is the world's most well-loved food.

David Wolfe

#28. What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model is an image or picture of reality painted with logical symbols instead of with words, sounds or watercolors.

John L. Casti

#29. A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

Jodi Picoult

#30. When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.

Grace Slick

#31. Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.

Angela Carter

#32. I have watched all the work going on there, and the more I see of it the more I am convinced that Mendelism has nothing to do with evolution.

Ernest MacBride

#33. if you take a positivist position, as I do, questions about reality don't have any meaning. All one can ask is whether imaginary time is useful in formulating mathematical models that describe what we observe.

Stephen Hawking

#34. Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality

Paul Feyerabend

#35. Guru, God and Self are One

Ramana Maharshi