Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
Oh yes, children often commit murders. And quite clever ones, too. Some murderers, particularly the distinguished ones who are going to make… — John Lee Mahin Copy Share Image
Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
“From the intellectual point of view an abyss may exist between a great mathematician and his boot maker, but from the point… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she… — Edmund Landau Copy Share Image
We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
You know" - Hale's breath was warm against Kat's ear in the chilly ballroom- "I don't know that both of us really… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to… — J. Arthur Thomson Copy Share Image
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age… — Julia Robinson Copy Share Image
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
When I told my son that I had to give a talk about my work to non-mathematicians, he warned me that regular… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator,… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
I actually started in the opposite place. I come from a technical background - I'm a mathematician and a programmer by trade… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly! — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas… — Richard Courant 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
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