Equations Quotes

• An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.

  Srinivasa Ramanujan

  Mean, Science

  "The Man Who Knew Infinity fails to break the mathematical mould" by Jacob Aron, www.newscientist.com. April 08, 2016.

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• A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.

  Paul Dirac

  Science, Giving, Biographies

  Howard Baer, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Alexander Belyaev (2003). “Proceedings of the Dirac Centennial Symposium: Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA, 6-7 December 2002”, p.45, World Scientific

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• A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Motivational, Atheist

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

  John Pople

  Book, Class, Age

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• God is not a dead equation!

  Muhammad Iqbal

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• My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

  Maurice Ravel

  Cells, Ravens, Mathematical Equations

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• The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

  Damon Hill

  Athlete, Safety, Problem

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• But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.

  Edward Witten

  Music, Beauty, Real

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• The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

  Sadaharu Oh

  Sports, Skills, Half

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• In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

  Norman O. Brown

  Science, Essence, Long

  Norman O. Brown (1972). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”

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• Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.

  Paul Dirac

  Lying, Science, Law

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• Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

  Stephen Hawking

  Fire, Breathe, Theory

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.151, Random House

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• While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Understanding, Use

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• Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

  Abdul Kalam

  Beautiful, Race, Humanity

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• If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.

  Talcott Parsons

  Missing, Three, Variables

  TALCOTT PARSONS (1949). “THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION”

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• I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Character, Mean, Mathematical Equations

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "Philosophy ". Chapter 2: "The Pretence of Knowledge", pp. 27-28, 1978.

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• Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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• A mathematical equation stands forever.

  Albert Einstein

  Mathematical Equations, Forever, Mathematical

  "Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists". Book by Robert Jungk (p. 249), 1958.

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• Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

  Stephen Hawking

  Bored, Physics, Boring

  "Stephen Hawking: A Biography". Book by Kristine Larsen, 2005.

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• If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations - then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

  Arthur Eddington

  Hope, Science, Errors

  "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Eddington, (Ch. 4), 1928.

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• Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

  Mary Schmich

  Worry, Trying, Gum

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.31, Agate Digital

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• Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from generation to generation. This is so convenient a way to present scientific discovery, and so useful for textbooks, that it can be called the treasure-hunt picture of knowledge.

  Robert P. Crease

  Knowledge, Science, Discovery

  Robert P. Crease (2010). “The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

  Simon Sinek

  Strong, Giving, Feelings

  "True Friendship: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

  David Brin

  Writing, Doubt, Training

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