Mathematician Quotes · Page 12

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— Nicolaus Copernicus

They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was…

— Tobias Dantzig

Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.

— Jennifer Tour Chayes

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

— Joseph Fourier

In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we…

— W. W. Sawyer

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

— Rene Thom

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.

— Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic;…

— Augustus De Morgan

Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

— Ogyu Sorai

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

— Henry Adams

Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as…

— Alexander Tsiaras

Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.

— Ralph P. Boas, Jr

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that…

— Anonymous

Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel!

— Noga Alon

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

You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which…

— Len Evans

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some…

— John Pople

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

I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance.…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

I think you can fan the flames, but I think in the same way that a mathematician is a mathematician - He's…

— John Hurt

I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential…

— Whitfield Diffie

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

— George E. P. Box

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated…

— Norbert Wiener

Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.

— Larry Wall