Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have… — Edwin Howard Armstrong Copy Share Image
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and… — Henry Hallett Dale Copy Share Image
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some… — John Pople Copy Share Image
If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either… — Steven Landsburg Copy Share Image
A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians,… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps,… — Pierre De Fermat Copy Share Image
True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I don't care if you are a good mathematician, or a good athletic, or not good at anything- that you think. But… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as… — Alexander Tsiaras Copy Share Image
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“French mathematician Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963): “The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.” I” — Paul J. Nahin Copy Share Image
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