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The Stature Of A Science Is Commonly Measured By The Degree To Which It Makes Use Of Mathematics.
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The stature of a science is commonly measured by the degree to which
it makes use of mathematics.
-- S. S. Stevens
Related:
Many mental processes admit of being roughly measured.
For instance, the degree to which people are bored, by counting the number of their fidgets....
Theoretical Physics is a science locally isomorphic to Mathematics.
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness?
The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it....
The degree of a country's development is measured by the ratio of the price of an automobile to that of the cost of a haircut.
The lower the ratio, the higher the degree of development. -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
The advance of science can be measured by the rate at which exceptions to previously held laws accumulate.
Corollaries: 1. Exceptions always outnumber rules....
BOTANY, n. The science of vegetables -- those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are.
It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill- smelling....
One of the moring boring aspects of the science of mathematics is that there is only one correct answer.