Quotable Mathematics

"The employment of tropes, just as the use of schemata, is the exclusive privilege of the very learned. The rules governing  tropes are...

"Like every other aspect of scientific procedure, the scientific metaphor is a pragmatic device, to be used freely as long as it serves...

"A machine can handle information; it can calculate, conclude, and choose; it can perform reasonable operations with information. A mac...

"The topics of ontology, or metaphysic, are cause, effect, action, passion, identity, opposition, subject, adjunct, and sign." (Is...

"In a linear world of equilibrium and predictability, the sparse research into an evidence base for management prescriptions and the co...

"The symbols organized by knowledge, or concepts, themselves belong to social nature as its ideological elements. Therefore, by operati...

"[…] the major mathematical research acquires an organization and orientation similar to the poetical function which, adjusting by mean...

"The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis." (Wilhelm Wundt, ...

"A chess hypothesis is basically the equivalent to drawing up a strategic plan. Experimentation in chess is equivalent to the moves tha...

"Man's general way of thinking of the totality, i.e. his general world view, is crucial for overall order of the human mind itself....

"Imagination is the outreaching of mind […] the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychi...

"The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the 'conventions' of the symbolic syste...

"A neural network is a massively parallel distributed processor that has a natural propensity for storing experiential knowledge and ma...

All knowledge is profitable; profitable in its ennobling effect on the character, in the pleasure it imparts in its acquisition, as well as ...

"But metaphor is an indispensable tool of thought and expression - a characteristic of all human communication, even of that of the sci...

"Cybernetics is the general science of communication. But to refer to communication is consciously or otherwise to refer to distinguish...