...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“A mathematician tells you that the wall of warped space prevents the Moon from flying out of its orbit yet can't tell… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians have, according to Wright, been "unreasonably successful" in finding applications to apparently useless theorems, and often years after the theorems were… — Alex Bellos Copy Share Image
Physicists and mathematicians regularly invade other fields but other fields do not invade theirs so we can see which fields are hardest… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with… — Jo Boaler Copy Share Image
Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have never been in full agreement on their science, though it is said to be the science of self-evident verities --… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this;… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians need to understand a problem only for themselves; math teachers need both to know the math and to know how 30… — Elizabeth Green Copy Share Image
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to… — Constance Reid Copy Share Image
“The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The imaginaries finally lost their air of impossibility when nineteenth-century mathematicians realized that they're actually perfectly ordinary, law-abiding numerical beings-it's just that… — David Stipp Copy Share Image
In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians finally developed a financial model to accurately compare apples and oranges. Any two kinds of fruit can be compared, although guavas… — Graham Parke Copy Share Image
Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all… — Henry Markram Copy Share Image
Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour.… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight,… — Gil Kalai Copy Share Image