Quotable Mathematics

"The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are...

  "Every object that we perceive appears in innumerable aspects. The concept of the object is the invariant of all these aspects. From ...

"It is told that those who first brought out the irrationals from concealment into the open perished in a shipwreck, to a man. For the ...

"Information is carried by physical entities, such as books or sound waves or brains, but it is not itself material. Information in a l...

  "In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way ...

"All pendulums exhibit such rotation, but for most pendulums this behavior is masked by other more prominent effects. For an ideal Fouc...

"Among the differences that will always be with you are the small overshoots and oscillations just before and after the vertical jumps ...

"Alternating positive and negative feedback produces a special form of stability represented by endless oscillation between two polar s...

"If statistical graphics, although born just yesterday, extends its reach every day, it is because it replaces long tables of numbers a...

"When significance tests are used and a null hypothesis is not rejected, a major problem often arises - namely, the result may be inter...