Quotations

Famous Quotations

1.  ”Ability is nothing without opportunity.”
   

Napoleon I (1769 - 1821) French emperor

1.   “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
   

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) German-born U.S. physicist.

1.   “All science requires mathematics.”
   

Roger Bacon (1220? - 1292) English monk, philosopher, and scientist.

1.   “I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.”
   

Godfrey Hardy (1877 - 1947)British mathematician.

1.   “All that we know is, nothing can be known.”
   

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) British poet.

1.   “Computers double their performance every 18 months. So the danger is real that they could develop intelligence and take over the world.” 

Stephen Hawking (1942 - ) British physicist.

1. “What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.”
2. “Man is by nature a political animal.”
3. “Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) Greek philosopher.

1. “All our knowledge falls within the bounds of possible experience.”
2. “I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.”
3. “Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.”
4. “It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.”
5. “Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind…The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.”

Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) German philosopher.

1. “God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.”

Paul Dirac (1902 – 1984) British physicist and Nobel laureate.

1. All science requires mathematics.
2. For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Roger Bacon (1220? – 1292) English monk, philospher, and scientist.