Mathematical Reasoning Quotes

#1. We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world.

Rebecca Goldstein

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

Paul Feyerabend

#3. Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

Alan Turing

#4. A new era of responsibility is here.

Valerie Jarrett

#5. So help me, Mac, if you manage to kill me I will ruin your eternity. You will be the most miserable man to live forever.

Marshall Thornton

#6. [Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in writings related to mathematical subjects.

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

#7. Tengo was about to say something when he heard the connection cut. Everybody was hanging up on him. Like chopping down a rope bridge.

Haruki Murakami

#8. The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

Augustus De Morgan

#9. Scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

James Bryant Conant

#10. Another book gives the illusion of scientific precision by working out this reasoning in a mathematical formula using a "Mental Performance Ratio (MPR),

Kenneth L. Higbee

#11. Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

John Locke

#12. Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

Josh Billings

#13. The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

George Washington

#14. My first job was when I was eight. I did this opera, which was a Robert Wilson/Philip Glass opera, called 'White Raven.' That was a very confusing and trippy creation tale, and I was a kid who brought up the sun and rotated the earth. It was very empowering.

Ezra Miller