Mathematicians Quotes · Page 3

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

— Thelonious Monk

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

— Andrew Wiles

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

— M. C. Escher

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.

— Joseph Warren

“Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their lives trying to understand the infinite and perfect.”

— Bruce Schechter

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

— Paul Lockhart

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

— Anonymous

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

— Richard Hamming

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 have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason…

— Leonhard Euler

Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles…

— Tom Noddy

The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of…

— Dominic Cummings

Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.

— Ron Eglash

Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the…

— Eric Temple Bell

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

— Martin Gardner

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and…

— Timothy Gowers

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

How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that…

— Anonymous

The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

“The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an…

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

“All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platonic forms. An ice palace. But they…

— Sylvain Cappell

A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its…

— David Mumford

“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading…

— Eric Temple Bell

Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further…

— Keith Devlin

“Mathematicians,excell,us, Take,a,census, Of,the,canaries,in,the,sun.”

— Jose Garcia Villa

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

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

— Bill Gaede

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

— Isadore Singer

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

— Martin Gardner

Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

— Charles Hermite

Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.

— Henri Poincare

The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight.

— Philip J. Davis

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

— Andrew Wiles

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones.

— Lipman Bers

“If there were formula for success, mathematicians would have definitely held the top spot in the world's richest list.”

— JOHN TASKINSOY