It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers. — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy. — Maxwell Rosenlicht Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.” — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years. — Charles Hermite 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
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems… — Jimmy Chin Copy Share Image
“Instead of the unity of worshiping one Supreme God, they sought division, the trinity. Here come the greatest mathematicians of all time,… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
[writing to Stirling in 1740] ... an unlucky accident happened to some of the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems that they… — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
... there are those who believe that mathematics can sustain itself and grow without any further contact with anything outside itself, and… — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“The house is a normal-sized house, but once you step foot in the door, you are confronted with “The Dome.” Perfectly round,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. — Daniel Bernoulli Copy Share Image
Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently. — Marcus du Sautoy 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
“Engineers can compute but not define, mathematicians can define but not compute, economists can neither define nor compute.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“ Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.” — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
“There was no such thing as a straight line until mathematicians invented one.” — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
An important aspect of being a scientist isn't just knowing the math, but also knowing of imagination. — George Zafiris Copy Share Image
All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We mathematicians understand that without the education of children, the economy cannot grow, and the world would starve from ignorance.” — V.M.Robinson Copy Share Image
“In his eulogy, the Marquis de Condorcet observed that whosoever pursues mathematics in the future will be "guided and sustained by the… — William Dunham Copy Share Image
Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
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