Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood. — Edward Norton Lorenz Copy Share Image
A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician. — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants. — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“God is a mathematician of a very high order and He used advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.” — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not. To every sum in there is already a… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',… — G. H. Hardy 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
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
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty… — Harry Golombek Copy Share Image
A mathematician either has a feeling for equations and an understanding and delight in it, not only in the purity of it,… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches,… — Tom Lehrer 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
There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
“I entered Princeton University as a graduate student in 1959, when the Department of Mathematics was housed in the old Fine Hall.… — Phillip A. Griffiths Copy Share Image
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and… — Chen-Ning Yang Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“ Ohm found that the results could be summed up in such a simple law that he who runs may read it,… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
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