Quotable Mathematics

"[...] every culture in the world has had its own unique history and we can not therefore say that any culture observable in the presen...

"The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being." (Thomas Carlyle, "Jean Paul Friedric...

"If observation be the soil, reading is the manure of intellectual culture." (Daniel Drake, "Physician to the West: Selected ...

"A social system consists in a plurality of individual actors interacting with each other in a situation which has at least a physical ...

"A world view is not merely a philosophical by-product of each culture, like a shadow, but the very skeleton of concrete cognitive assu...

"Culture is the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others." (Ge...

"Science is an integral part of culture. It’s not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It’s one of the glories of the huma...

"Numeracy is the ability to process, interpret and communicate numerical, quantitative, spatial, statistical, even mathematical informa...

"The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in...

"Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth." (Philip Gerard, ...

"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding." (Marshall McLuhan, "The Gutenberg...

"When a person has learned a symbolic system well enough to use it, she has established a portable self-contained world within the mind...

"The theory of which we have just given an overview may be considered from a point of view apt to set aside the obscure in what it pres...

"Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition; whenever we start insisting too hard upon ‘op...

"A discovery in science, or a new theory, even when it appears most unitary and most all-embracing, deals with some immediate element o...

“We invoke the imagination and the intervals that it furnishes, since the form itself is without motion or genesis, indivisible and free of ...

“One measure of the depth of a physical theory is the extent to which it poses serious challenges to aspects of our worldview that had previ...

"It has become increasingly evident in recent times, however, that nature works on a different plan. Her fundamental laws do not govern...