Mathematician Quotes · Page 4

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

— Francis Crick

I know myself. I'm not gonna be a mathematician or a professor.

— Noah Centineo

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

— Johannes Kepler

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

— George E. P. Box

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

— Thelonious Monk

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

— Augustus De Morgan

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

— William Wordsworth

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

— Carl Benjamin Boyer

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

— Henri Poincare

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

— Catherynne M. Valente

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

— Nicolaus Copernicus

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

— Bertrand Russell

Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

— Keith Devlin

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of…

— Yehuda Amichai

What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like…

— Galileo Galilei

We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the…

— James Jeans

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook…

— Brian Patten

The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated…

— Albert Einstein

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

Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the…

— Ian Stewart

As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap.…

— Martin Gardner

A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had…

— John G. Kemeny

However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged…

— Graham Greene

A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, "It lightens and it thunders ," is conjunctive, "It lightens…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest…

— Thomas Huxley

It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something…

— Anonymous

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

— G. H. Hardy

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

— M. C. Escher

“...and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.”

— W.W. Rouse Ball

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

— Tobias Dantzig

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

— George Eliot

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

— Richard Hamming

“I am a mathematician and I can confidently say that the best figure ever produced is your phone number.”

— Amit Kalantri

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“my mother is a good mathematician she was able to divide 3 eggs into 8 mouths equally every day”

— Ymatruz

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

— Morris Kline