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"We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be." »William James
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"The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work." »John Von Neumann
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"Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science." »Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)
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"The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change." »Fortran manual for Xerox Computers
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"A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth." »Sir John A. MacDonald
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"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." »Niels Henrik David Bohr
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"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." »Niels Bohr
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"As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained." »Arthur Cayley
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"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically." »Albert Einstein
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"A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth." »O.G. Sutton
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"Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without." »Rue McClanahan
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"'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches." »Miles Kindera
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"Age is state of mind not a statement of wrinkles" »The Omani Shed
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"Science is but the statement of truth found out." »Coley
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"An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that somthing is already so." »Shakti Gawain
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"Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion." »Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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"Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion." »Ambrose Bierce
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"I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent." »Richard Darman
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"It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die ... None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question." »Aleister Crowley
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"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." »Albert Einstein
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths." »Bertrand Russell
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"If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. (Handwritten statement found in her residence)" »Indira Nehru Gandhi
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"I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign." »Andrew Schneider
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"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever." »Albert Einstein
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"When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable." »Paul De Gondi
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"When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable." »Paul De Gondi
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"I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. (On appointing 10 women to top government positions)" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit." »Battaille
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