To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them. — John Napier Copy Share Image
Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them. — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy. — Maxwell Rosenlicht Copy Share Image
To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it… — Bill Gosper Copy Share Image
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
“I think you mother has Asperger's," Georgie had said to Neal. "They didn't get Asperger's int he '50s." "I'm just saying maybe… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful? — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the… — Pierre de Fermat Copy Share Image
A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I think you can fan the flames, but I think in the same way that a mathematician is a mathematician - He's… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician. — Bel Powley Copy Share Image
Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. — Daniel Bernoulli Copy Share Image
Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it. — Jack Edmonds Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself. — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
“ Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.” — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ... — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
“Safety warning: never divide by zero unless a licensed mathematician is present.” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. — William James Copy Share Image
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