I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do. — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income? — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. — Samuil Shatunovsky Copy Share Image
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. — Ogyu Sorai Copy Share Image
Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics). — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
“O the grey dull day! It seemed a limbo of painless patient consciousness through which souls of mathematicians might wander, projecting long… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon… — Nicolaus Copernicus 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
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
“Though blessed with the enviable properties of a mink coat—graceful, unreasonable, and impractical no matter what she was draped over—she was nevertheless… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
“Strange as it may seem, not all of the great mathematicians have been professors in colleges or universities. Quite a few were… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
“When I interviewed one of the mathematicians in the study, he asked me if I knew how to define a function. I… — Ken Bain Copy Share Image
“In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians.… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
“I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo… — Mario Livio Copy Share Image
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
