If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself. — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
The practical man demands an appearance of reality at least. Always dealing in the concrete, he regards mathematical terms not as symbols… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules.… — Jean-Pierre Serre Copy Share Image
Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets… — Bernard Bolzano Copy Share Image
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No mathematician of equal stature has risen from our generation... Hilbert was singularly free from national and racial prejudices; in all public… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician. — Karl Weierstrass Copy Share Image
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook… — Brian Patten Copy Share Image
I am genuinely sorry for scientists of the younger generation who never knew Fisher personally. So long as you avoided a handful… — Fred Hoyle 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
The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ... — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight. — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of… — Gian-Carlo Rota 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
