Quotes, Aphorisms, Laws, and Thoughts

Mathematics

2 is not equal to 3; not even for very large values of 2.
Anonymous

Alcohol and calculus don't mix: don't drink and derive.
Anonymous

Chemistry is physics without thought; mathematics is physics without purpose.
Anonymous

If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number.
Anonymous

It is rare that mathematicians are intuitive, and that men of intuition are mathematicians.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Mathematics has given economics rigour, but alas, also mortis.
Robert Heilbroner (1919-2005)

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.
Anonymous

Some of it plus the rest of it is all of it.
Anonymous

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou

There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.
Anonymous

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature.
Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

Where are the calculations that go with the calculated risk?
Anonymous

Your probability of winning the lottery hardly increases by buying a ticket.
Anonymous