Mathematician Quotes · Page 7

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

— George Eliot

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

— Karl Weierstrass

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

— Anonymous

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

— James Jeans

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians

— Freeman Dyson

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

— Richard Hamming

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by…

— Hermann Weyl

... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with…

— Timothy Gowers

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism…

— E. O. Wilson

In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that…

— William Stanley Jevons

“Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: I will give you this powerful machine, it…

— Michael Francis Atiyah

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

— Keith Devlin

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of…

— Yehuda Amichai

What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like…

— Galileo Galilei

Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation.…

— Ian Stewart

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now,…

— Anonymous

Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will…

— Blaise Pascal

If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the…

— Arthur Eddington

If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where,…

— Martin Gardner

The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest…

— Thomas Huxley

It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something…

— Anonymous

If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“I am a mathematician and I can confidently say that the best figure ever produced is your phone number.”

— Amit Kalantri

“my mother is a good mathematician she was able to divide 3 eggs into 8 mouths equally every day”

— Ymatruz

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

— Morris Kline

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

— Isaac Asimov

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

— Arthur Eddington

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics.

— Bill Gaede

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

— Charles Darwin

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

— Havelock Ellis

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

— Rene Descartes

It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless.

— Isadore Singer

“With so many problems to solve ,I should be... Mathematician .”

— Makis Philosofukciss

“a mathematician is someone for whom mathematics is a soap opera.”

— Keith J. Devlin

If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of…

— S. R. Ranganathan

“There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.”

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

— Martin Gardner