If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that… — David Ruelle Copy Share Image
The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either… — Steven Landsburg Copy Share Image
Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had… — George Polya Copy Share Image
It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all… — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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