Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood. — Edward Norton Lorenz Copy Share Image
A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician. — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants. — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more… — Kenneth Appel Copy Share Image
If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets… — Bernard Bolzano 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
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
It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Music and Dancing, not only give great pleasure but have the honour of depending on Mathematics, for they consist in number and… — Charles Sorel Copy Share Image
I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty… — Harry Golombek Copy Share Image
I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
A mathematician either has a feeling for equations and an understanding and delight in it, not only in the purity of it,… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules.… — Jean-Pierre Serre Copy Share Image
There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches,… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be,… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I am genuinely sorry for scientists of the younger generation who never knew Fisher personally. So long as you avoided a handful… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“ John Dalton was a very singular Man: He has none of the manners or ways of the world. A tolerable mathematician… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
