Mathematical Facts

Famous quotes containing the words mathematical and/or facts:

    All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us.... This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one’s brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
    Roger Bacon (c. 1214–c. 1294)

    Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)