Mathematician Quotes · Page 8

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

— William James

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

— G. H. Hardy

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

— Anonymous

If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning. If you're going to fight something, fight for those in…

— Daniel Goldston

“Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that…

— G.H. Hardy

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

If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.

— Bernhard Riemann

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make…

— James Clerk Maxwell

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a…

— Bill Gaede

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

— Brahmagupta

I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that…

— John Desmond Bernal

The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be…

— Lawrence Joseph Henderson

The mathematical fraternity is a little like a self-perpetuating priesthood. The mathematicians of today teach the mathematicians of tomorrow and, in effect,…

— Paul Halmos

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

— David Chalmers

[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work,…

— Anonymous

One can always reason with reason.

— Henri Bergson

To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that…

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to…

— George Henry Lewes

I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.

— Richard P. Feynman

Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further…

— Keith Devlin

“It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is…

— Bertrand Russell

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing…

— Paul Lockhart