I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.' — Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza Copy Share Image
Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years. — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight. — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook… — Brian Patten Copy Share Image
We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be… — Gabriel Lippmann 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
Whenever I want to represent or depict the official version, I will refer to them as 'mathematicians' or 'mathematical physicists' or idiots… — Bill Gaede 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
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
A person who can, within a year, solve x 2 - 92y 2 = 1 is a mathematician. — Brahmagupta Copy Share Image
There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones. — Lipman Bers Copy Share Image
“So the mathematician and the artist are companioned in the same dark, and do obeisance to the same gods.” — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician. — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers. — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.” — Karl Weierstrass Copy Share Image
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random — Donald Knuth 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