Ian Stewart Quotes

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.

First is first, and second is nowhere.

During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together.

Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction rates.