To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. — Isaac Newton Tags: #Reaction, #Action, #IsaacNewton, #English, #MathematicianMini who’s who: Isaac Newton : English Mathematician Born: December 25, 1642 Died: March 20,...
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. — Henri Poincare Tags: #Facts, #House, #Stones, #HenriPoincare, #French, #MathematicianMini who’s who: Henri Poincare...
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. — Isaac Newton Tags: #True, #Understand, #Imagine, #IsaacNewton, #English, #MathematicianMini...
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. — Rene Descartes Tags: #Knowledge, #Intuition, #ReneDescartes, #French, #MathematicianMini who’s who: Rene Descartes...
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated...