Science Quotes
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"One cannot escape the feeling that mathematical truths are somehow eternal and independent of human thought."Hilbert, David
"The question of the applicability of mathematics to natural phenomena remains eternally fascinating."Hilbert, David
"Every scientific principle must be able to be expressed in the language of mathematics."Hilbert, David
"Every mathematical proof is a small window into the mind of the universe."Hilbert, David
"Every proof is a conversation between the mathematician and the universe."Hilbert, David
"Mathematics is the purest form of logical thinking."Frege, Gottlob
"Numbers are not physical objects but abstract entities."Frege, Gottlob
"Mathematics depends upon the laws of logic, not physical reality."Frege, Gottlob
"A function is defined by its argument-value relationship."Frege, Gottlob
"Logical laws are not empirical discoveries but necessary truths."Frege, Gottlob
"Intuition alone cannot establish mathematical truth."Frege, Gottlob
"Numbers are objects of our thoughts, not our sensations."Frege, Gottlob
"Mathematical truths hold with absolute necessity."Frege, Gottlob
"The symbolic form of an expression reveals its logical form."Frege, Gottlob
"Arithmetic cannot be reduced to psychology or empirical observation."Frege, Gottlob
"Mathematical knowledge is a priori and necessarily true."Frege, Gottlob
"Abstract entities are as necessary for understanding as concrete ones."Frege, Gottlob
"Mathematics is the instrument which has been created by the human spirit to understand the universe."Weyl, Hermann
"Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of adversity."Weyl, Hermann
"The insight into the nature of things that mathematics affords is beyond compare."Weyl, Hermann
"The universe speaks in the language of mathematics, and we are fortunate enough to be able to listen."Weyl, Hermann
"Where there is mathematical beauty, there is physical truth waiting to be discovered."Weyl, Hermann
"The lambda calculus is a language for talking about functions."Church, Alonzo
"The greatest unsolved problem in mathematics is P versus NP."Church, Alonzo
"Mathematics is the science of what is necessary."Church, Alonzo
"In science, there is no authority, only reason."Church, Alonzo
"The universe speaks the language of mathematics."Church, Alonzo
"The universe operates according to discoverable principles."Church, Alonzo
"In science, we are all servants of truth."Church, Alonzo
"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful."Poincaré, Henri