Monthly Archives: April 2010

“All the chemist can do is to find out what Nature permits, and any substances that are thus developed or discovered are inherently natural. It is very important to remember that.” — Buckminster Fuller (1963, p. 76)

“To the unsophisticated observer of mathematics, it may appear that the use of numbers is the critical characteristic of disciplines which use mathematics, and that one can thus make a discipline more scientific by involving numbers in it more deeply. … Continue reading →

“Our main aim is to build up a system of formal rules representing in the best possible way informal (mathematical) reasoning.” — Martin-Löf (1984, p. 4)