All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives. — Bob Dylan 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
The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless. — Isadore Singer Copy Share Image
By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in… — Jonathan Sarfati Copy Share Image
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be… — Arthur Eddington 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
Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
[writing to Stirling in 1740] ... an unlucky accident happened to some of the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems that they… — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income? — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“The appearance of Professor Benjamin Peirce, whose long gray hair, straggling grizzled beard and unusually bright eyes sparkling under a soft felt… — William Elwood Byerly Copy Share Image
Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination. — Leonard Koppett Copy Share Image
Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary. — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating,… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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