Lord Byron Quotes

I'm a max player. Don't get mad at me because I'm telling you what's real. One plus one is two, all day long, and it's never gonna change. And that's factorial.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

I believe only in the mathematics.

Logic is pointless.

Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with coins, or dice, or chess pieces, or pencils. He knows it, and that's that. He cannot conceive a different sum. There are mathematicians who say that three plus one is a tautology for four, a different way of saying "four" ... If three plus one can be two, or fourteen, then reason is madness.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.

Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him ; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to rest had no tendency to prove them. But he had been endeavouring to give a more active and positive help than this to the cause of what he deemed pure religion.

What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.

The only real people are the people who never existed.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.