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Famous Quotes - Mathematicians - Statistics

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Author Quote % Correct
R. Descartes I think, therefore I {am}.
94%
A. Einstein Energy equals mass times the speed of light {squared}.
89%
G. Cantor In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than {solving} problems.
76%
D. Hilbert We must {know} - we will {know}!
42%
K. Gödel Every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); {reason} itself does not err.
39%
R. Descartes In my {opinion}, all things in nature occur mathematically.
21%
G. Leibniz If controversies were to arise, there would be be no more need of disputation between two philosophers than between two calculators. For it would suffice for them to take their pencils in their hands and to sit down at the abacus, and say to each other (and if they so wish also to a friend called to help): Let us {calculate}.
19%
C.S. Peirce Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of {reasoning} already.
16%
A. De Morgan The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning, but {imagination}.
11%
I. Newton Plato is my friend - Aristotle is my friend - but my greatest friend is {truth}.
8%
L. Euler Madam, I have come from a country where people are {hanged} if they talk.
5%
L. Euler Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive {hypothesis} may suffice for explaining many phenomena.
3%
C.F. Gauss It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest {enjoyment}.
3%
B. Pascal People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find {attractive}.
2%
E. Borel Whatever the progress of human knowledge, there will always be room for {ignorance}, hence for chance and probability.
2%
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