Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions… — Michael Strong 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
The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think… — John Hurt 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
The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age… — Julia Robinson Copy Share Image
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit.… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is… — Edward Kasner 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
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism". — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
