Quotable Mathematics

"[…] the way in which I have proceeded does not lead to the desired goal, the goal that you declare you have reached, but instead to a ...

"Divide each problem that you examine into as many parts as you can and as you need to solve them more easily." (René Descartes, “...

"As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement...

"A scientist, whether theorist or experimenter, puts forward statements, or systems of statements, and tests them step by step. In the ...

"A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom y...

"Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as w...

“The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been cru...

“The possession of an original theory which has not yet been assailed must certainly sweeten the temper of a man who is not beforehand ill-n...

"There is nothing as practical as a good theory” (Kurt Z Lewin, "Psychology and the process of group living", Journal of Soci...

“The voice from within can occasionally be wrong, even in the wisest individual, in any case, such wise individuals generally test their inn...