Quotable Mathematics

"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with t...

"Rule 2. Any summary of a distribution of numbers in terms of symmetric functions should not give an objective degree of belief in any ...

"A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth." (Thomas Carlyle) "...

"As being is to become, so is truth to belief" (Plato, "Timaeus", cca. 360 BC) "Nothing is easier than self-deceit....

"The belief that mathematics, because it is abstract, because it is static and cold and gray, is detached from life, is a mistaken beli...

"The processes of nature lie so deep, that, after all the pains we can take, much, perhaps, will remain undiscovered beyond the reach o...

"That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind, or which contai...

"Each person has a different mental model and, therefore, potentially a different interpretation of the Facts. The danger comes when we...

"By a variable we will mean an attribute, measurement or inquiry that may take on one of several possible outcomes, or values, from a s...

"It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief." (Alan D Foster, "Cyber Way", 1990) "The use of Occam’s razor, ...

"A schema, then is a data structure for representing the generic concepts stored in memory. There are schemata representing our knowled...

"Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it." (Willard v O Quine, "The...