Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Indeed every mathematician knows that a proof has not been “understood” if one has done nothing more than verify step by step… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote… — Anonymous 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
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And a tear rolled down her cheek, as she said goodbye; because she's walking away, and she's never looking back — Anonymous Copy Share
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share
Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,… — Anonymous Copy Share
Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past… — Anonymous Copy Share
Distance is a test of love. many will fail for those who can't withstand it, but for those who can, theres only one answer… — Anonymous Copy Share
The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much. — Anonymous Copy Share
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share
![“No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/876/anonymous-1_abel_no-mathematician-should-ever-allow-him-t_651008.jpg)
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