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“Math is the single most elegant thing in the universe, and economics is what drives the human world. If you want to understand people in a sophisticated manner, I believe economics is the way.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

“Abstraction is the cost of generalization.”
― Grant Sanderson

“As I headed down the library steps, I turned back to look. The mathematics stacks were as silent and empty as ever. Apparently no one suspected the riches hidden there.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor

“Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks.

Some calculus-tricks are quite easy. Some are enormously difficult. The fools who write the textbooks of advanced mathematics - and they are mostly clever fools - seldom take the trouble to show you how easy the easy calculations are. On the contrary, they seem to desire to impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in the most difficult way.

Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can.”
― Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Calculus Made Easy

“Math has a tendency to reward you if you respect its symmetries" (Essence of Calculus, Chapter 1)”
― Grant Sanderson

“There was no escaping math, after all. It was everywhere, especially in nature. You could go as far to say that math was nature. Pi describe the arc of a rainbow, the way ripples spread in a body of water, the dimensions of the moon and sun. Fractals could be observed in halved sections of red cabbage, the topography of deserts, the branching of lightning bolts. And take the old man glaring out from his shirt, Leonardo Fibonacci, who discovered that a basic number sequence predicted the arrangement of scales on a pinecone, the distribution of petals on flowers, the spiral of a snail shell, the furcation of veins in the human body, even the structure of DNA. When all the people were gone, the numbers would persist.”
― Nathaniel Rich, Odds Against Tomorrow

“Mathematics is the language of science-- but it is also the hidden structure behind art�� and its basis is the invisible Logos of God.”
― Stratford Caldecott, Beauty for Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education

“The atom of science is math, the nucleus is zero, the electron is one”
― Azadshah Ganjali

“It is recommended to get 100% or something very close to that in all the topics in mathematics. Sal Khan did explicitly write this, however, perhaps in US America, for the low income folks, its best to just let them get a B (85%) and move on.”
― Sophia Nguyen

“It was the great Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann who first recognized that social behavior could be analyzed as games.”
― Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

“In 1958, Fortune singled Nash out for his achievements in game theory, algebraic geometry, and nonlinear theory,”
― Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

“[...] a decade as notable for its supreme faith in human rationality as for its dark anxieties about mankind’s survival [...]”
― Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

“Wait, you remember where you keep your stashes with equations?�� he’d demanded incred-
ulously when I started giving him directions.
“It’s easier than memorizing them,�� I tried to explain, but he just shook his head at me and de-
parted with the list.”
― S.L. Huang, Zero Sum Game

“Because the exponential distribution is so mathematically convenient, it is tempting to use it even when it is not appropriate.”
― thomas anderson, Operating Systems: Principles and Practice

“People with no qualifications whatsoever in mathematics, science and philosophy continuously proclaim, “My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.�� In fact, one of their tactics is to attempt to demolish knowledge by claiming that whatever anyone says is just “subjective��. Are science and math as “subjective�� as Eastern religion? Science and math objectively landed men on the moon!”
― Brother Cato, Illuminism Contra Discordianism

“All of the central ideas that mark religious and spiritual thinking can be translated into exact mathematical concepts and made compatible with science. Mathematics is true religion and spirituality, as Pythagoras understood.”
― Thomas Stark, The Sheldrake Shift: A Critical Evaluation of Morphic Resonance

“Math was either right or wrong, and if you got it right, it didn't matter what color you were.”
― Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures

“Breathe in and breathe out for me in even 1-2 counts,' the doctor instructed Herman.
Herman did as he was told even though one is an odd number.”
― J.S. Mason, The Satyrist...And Other Scintillating Treats

“If you favor the explanation that the 'O' was devised by the Greeks without reference to their alphabet, its arbitrariness is lessened by noticing how often nature supplies us with circular hollows: from an open mouth to the faintly outlined dark of the moon; from craters to wounds. 'Skulls and seeds and all good things are round,' wrote Nabokov.”
― Robert Kaplan

“What facilitates thought impoverishes imagination.”
― Robert Kaplan

“Light = mind = life = energy = motion = information = numbers = math. That’s the secret of existence. Have you seen the light?”
― Mike Hockney, Causation and the Principle of Sufficient Reason

“You can be good at math in school and still hate it.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“If you can escape math and numbers or be behind it - you become godlike. In case you are human, everything you do or is done to you can be put into a number.”
― Thomas Vato

“The war of the ghosts and the machines is the war between mathematics and science. There can be only one winner �� mathematics. Dimensionless mathematics is the noumenal ghost at the heart of the dimensional, phenomenal, scientific machine.”
― Mike Hockney, The War of the Ghosts and Machines

“The West is dying because of its cynicism, scepticism, agnosticism, atheism, nihilism, liberalism, political correctness, scientific materialism and capitalism �� which all go together as a dreadful, despairing, grim vision of a soulless universe devoid of any value and purpose whatsoever. The West is nothing but a “dark Satanic mill��, as Blake put it.

As Nietzsche said, we must revalue all values. We can only beat mad religions by replacing them with better, more rational religions ... and that’s exactly what Illuminism provides.

The West will fail totally unless it can regain its spirit, and that means finding religion again, but this time Logos rather than Mythos religion. Forget the old Gods. Humans themselves are the new Gods ... if they did but know it! Nietzsche said that God is dead. It’s time for him to be reincarnated ... in us!”
― Mike Hockney, The War of the Ghosts and Machines

“The moment you treat math as an abstraction, as unreal, as manmade, as a branch of logic, as a technical game, as a bunch of axioms, as some mere formalism, you are lost. Math, ontologically, is energy, and the study of math is the study of the existence, relations, interactions and symmetries of energy. That’s exactly why math can replace science wholesale. Anyone who approaches math as anything other than noumenal, ontological energy �� energy in itself �� will never get anywhere with relating math to
reality.”
― Mike Hockney, Gödel Versus Wittgenstein

“Math is the realest thing of all. Existence is mathematical, energy is mathematical, and you yourself are 100% mathematical. You will never know who you are �� you will never arrive at the answer to your existence and the meaning of your life �� until you understand what you are. You are pure math �� whether you like it or not! You are an individual, autonomous, self-solving, self-optimising node in an unimaginably vast, collective, cosmic, self-solving, self-optimising mathematical equation ... the equation of existence. The answer to existence is inside you right now. Only math can extract it. Isn’t it time you learned what math actually is?”
― Mike Hockney, Gödel Versus Wittgenstein

“Gödel’s scheme has nothing to do with mathematics in and of itself. It concerns false approaches (i.e. non-ontological approaches) to the definition of what math is. The incompleteness theorems proved that such approaches are doomed to failure. Gödel didn’t prove a single thing about what math is. What he proved is what’s it’s not. He proved that it definitely isn’t manmade.”
― Mike Hockney, Gödel Versus Wittgenstein

“If you go around saying that something must be falsifiable, you are saying that it must be false since, by definition, nothing true can be falsifiable. The whole task of truthfully explaining reality is to arrive at rational positions that are 100% unfalsifiable (hence non-scientific). Mathematics is what lies behind science and is unfalsifiable.”
― Mike Hockney, Science's War On Reason

“The universe is alive. Rules and equations aren’t dead... they’re the formulae for life itself. They are Platonic Forms of Life. Monads �� the basic constituents of living mathematics �� are living, self-solving, self-optimising minds. Life is breathed into math because math is inherently alive. Of course, you have to be an idealist, not a materialist, to understand this.”
― Mike Hockney, Ontological Mathematics: How to Create the Universe