When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Wormholes were first introduced to the public over a century ago in a book written by an Oxford mathematician. Perhaps realizing that… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit.… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
“She used to be a mathematician. Now she looks for omens and signs. At one time she thought math would clarify the… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I like words and numbers. I'm obsessed with them. You know, I think I would've been a mathematician had I kept up,… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what… — Isadore Singer Copy Share Image
Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
[writing to Stirling in 1740] ... an unlucky accident happened to some of the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems that they… — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract… — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
... there are those who believe that mathematics can sustain itself and grow without any further contact with anything outside itself, and… — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
The practical man demands an appearance of reality at least. Always dealing in the concrete, he regards mathematical terms not as symbols… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
I don't see how being a faster runner, or a better mathematician makes you 'deserve' access to a better life, or more… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“The appearance of Professor Benjamin Peirce, whose long gray hair, straggling grizzled beard and unusually bright eyes sparkling under a soft felt… — William Elwood Byerly Copy Share Image
Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight,… — Gil Kalai Copy Share Image
“Archimedes was a mathematician," blurted Ethan from the back of the room. "And he was Greek. And he invented things." Ethan was… — Adam Rex Copy Share Image
We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
“Even in the realm of pure mathematics, the mathematician may use any set of symbols he desires within any given region of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
![“She used to be a mathematician. Now she looks for omens and signs. At one time she thought math would clarify the world for her. She knew her link to real things was weak [...] She had hoped knowledge of mathematics, the world's rules, might strengthen her hold. But it did not. The world turned…” quote by Josephine Humphreys](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7d0/josephine-humphreys-17895_knowledge_she-used-to-be-a-mathematician-now-she-l_3121815.jpg)
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