Mathematician Quotes · Page 5

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

— Karl Weierstrass

If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of…

— S. R. Ranganathan

“a mathematician is someone for whom mathematics is a soap opera.”

— Keith J. Devlin

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

— Charles Darwin

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

— Havelock Ellis

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

— Rene Descartes

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

— Anonymous

Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

— Charles Hermite

That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a…

— Albert Einstein

[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be…

— Gabriel Lippmann

Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

— Ogyu Sorai

As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which…

— Paul Dirac

In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that…

— William Stanley Jevons

“Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: I will give you this powerful machine, it…

— Michael Francis Atiyah

You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which…

— Len Evans

Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think…

— Isaac Newton

We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians.…

— Malcolm X

Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will…

— Blaise Pascal

As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an…

— Susan Cain

I think you can fan the flames, but I think in the same way that a mathematician is a mathematician - He's…

— John Hurt

How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that…

— Anonymous

No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game.…

— Anonymous

The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight.

— Philip J. Davis

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

— Anonymous

“There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.”

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones.

— Lipman Bers

“So the mathematician and the artist are companioned in the same dark, and do obeisance to the same gods.”

— Howard Jacobson

A person who can, within a year, solve x 2 - 92y 2 = 1 is a mathematician.

— Brahmagupta

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

— Plato

One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.

— Stefan Banach

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.

— Hugh Hopper

Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

— Leo Tolstoy

It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.

— Timothy Gowers

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

— David Chalmers

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random

— Donald Knuth