Quotes by Rene Thom - Page 1

Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.
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Structure
Weak
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I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.
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Believe
Mathematician
Natural
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If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.
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Latter
Math
Rigour
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Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance
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Ignorance
Mechanic
Statistics
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Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global.
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Discipline
Math
Topology
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At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?
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Dream
Learning
Science
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The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.
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Ideas
Math
World
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The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle.
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Circles
Lying
Taught Us
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All models divide naturally...into two a priori parts: one is kinematics, whose aim is to parameterize the forms of the states of the process under consideration, and the other is dynamics, describing the evolution in time of these forms.
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Dynamics
Evolution
Two
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The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I should like to state a converse: is not all magic, to the extent that it is successful, geometry?
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Reality
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Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it gives no more than analogies, or metaphors, they do not realise that they are stating the proper aim of Catastrophe Theory, which is to classify all possible types of analogous situations.
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Science
Analogies
Giving
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