It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. — Daniel Bernoulli Copy Share Image
Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it. — Jack Edmonds Copy Share Image
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself. — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school?” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit. — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
“He was not a very careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes. But he made mistakes in a… — Goro Shimura Copy Share Image
Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be… — Kenneth E. Iverson 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
I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid.… — Gosta Mittag-Leffler Copy Share Image
A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
“It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,… — Thomas Reid 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
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 Copy Share Image
Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view. — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems… — Jimmy Chin Copy Share Image
“A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
...the mathematician uses an indirect definition of congruence, making use of the fact that the axiom of parallels together with an additional… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image