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I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I do that there is a creator of the universe, then how can we be so arrogant to believe he created life here and nowhere else? -- Gene Cernan
Mathematically, debts grow exponentially at compound interest. Banks recycle the interest into new loans, so debts grow exponentially, faster than the economy can afford to pay. -- Michael Hudson
I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I do that there is a creator of the universe, then how can we be so arrogant to believe he created life here and nowhere else? -- Gene Cernan
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. -- Theodor Adorno
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Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm. -- Margaret Wertheim
What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible. -- Julian Barnes
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. -- Susan Sontag
There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections. -- Tom Lehrer
Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why. -- Jim McKelvey
The more I read, to me the more incredible everything is. Based on what I've read, there are all these other dimensional planes and spaces, mathematically proven. -- Dwight Schultz
Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to. -- Grandmaster Flash
Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race. -- Rob Sheffield
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact. -- Alfred de Vigny
It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent. -- Richard P. Feynman
I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God. -- Neil Turok
It's like simulating earthquakes: we can over and over study a bubble, crash, bubble, crash. Then we can see mathematically if there's some regular pattern and what's going on in people's brains when prices are going up and before the crash is happening. -- Colin Camerer
People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls. -- Kenneth Fisher
When you have a lot of money, there's so many places you can go to manage your money. But when you don't have money, mathematically you actually need a financial plan more. You can't really afford to make mistakes. So why is this such a luxury product? -- Alexa Von Tobel
One of the things that's been crazy for us has been the speed at which news can break on Digg, because it's powered by a mass of humans versus a machine that has to go out and crawl and find the information and then determine its relevance mathematically. -- Kevin Rose
The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air. -- Bob Costas
Mint's business model became, 'We'll go for free, and then we'll find these savings opportunities for you.' You know, better interest rate on your credit cards, when should you consolidate your student loans, when does it mathematically make sense to refinance your mortgage, and Mint figures all that stuff out for you. -- Aaron Patzer
I am the largest market shareholder of clothing in the U.K. and I am not a destination shop for food. If the clothing market is affected - and it has been - and I hold my market share mathematically, then fine, I am doing no worse than the market is doing, which is exactly the case, but I'm losing revenue. -- Stuart Rose
Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable. -- Sean Connery
A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it. -- Robert Daniel Carmichael
But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically. -- Rene Descartes
I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist. -- Koji Nakanishi
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I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged. -- Roger Jones
No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience. -- Pam Brown
The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain. -- William S. Burroughs
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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war. -- Hannah Fry
My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible to achieve that. -- Sam Abell
Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form? -- Giacomo Puccini
The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent. -- Joseph Sobran
All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them. -- Albert Einstein
The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
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I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate. -- David Mumford
In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine. -- Morris Kline
Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so. -- Robertson Davies
One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its conditions? The essence of music is revelation. -- Heinrich Heine
The difficulty involved in the proper and adequate means of describing changes in continuous deformable bodies is the method of differential equations. ... They express mathematically the physical concept of contiguous action. Einstein's Theory of Relativity -- Max Born

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