It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.” — Karl Weierstrass Copy Share Image
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel! — Noga Alon Copy Share Image
It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail,… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing. — George Polya Copy Share Image
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs… — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all… — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and… — Dirk Jan Struik Copy Share Image
This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I'm a mathematician. I can trade in facts about false positives and absolute truths about accuracy and statistics with complete confidence. — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
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