35 Quotes About Equations

As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are equal?

Infinity...is used in physics simply as a shorthand for "a very big number.

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.

Pure mathematics shall be convinced by definite equations for the given indefinite number system

The integrals which we have obtained are not only general expressions which satisfy the differential equation, they represent in the most distinct manner the natural effect which is the object of the phenomenon... when this condition is fulfilled, the integral is, properly speaking, the equation of the phenomenon; it expresses clearly the character and progress of it, in the same manner as the finite equation of a line or curved surface makes known all the properties of those forms.

Paul Dirac was notoriously a man of few words. Dick Feynman told the story that when he first met Dirac at a conference, Dirac said after a long silence, “I have an equation; do you have one too?

Todd was neuter, it seemed, except for the near-orgasmic pleasure he took from his formulas. Cono guessed that only a person who didn't really care for people could find personalities in equations, and friends in matrices. Todd spoke of data sets as if they were current or future lovers. Cono admired him for his ability to find joy beyond the secretory impulses that controlled most humans.

Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.

If a scientist does not understand a problem, he writes down many formulae, but as soon as he has understood it, there remain at most two.