The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
“What Pascal overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So in the end it wasn't Gödel, it wasn't Turing, and it wasn't my results that are making mathematics go into an… — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato Copy Share Image
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“God is a pure mathematician!' declared British astronomer Sir James Jeans. The physical Universe does seem to be organised around elegant mathematical… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what… — Isadore Singer Copy Share Image
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know… — Louis J. Mordell Copy Share Image
You know" - Hale's breath was warm against Kat's ear in the chilly ballroom- "I don't know that both of us really… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
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