You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you’ll have to run much faster.
Order is heaven’s first law.
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether deLint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.
To ask the right question is harder than to answer it.
To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.
The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.
I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.
Young man, in mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
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.
Number rules the universe.
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.
Mathematics is for lazy people.