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
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 Copy Share Image
A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more… — Kenneth Appel Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Music and Dancing, not only give great pleasure but have the honour of depending on Mathematics, for they consist in number and… — Charles Sorel Copy Share Image
Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules.… — Jean-Pierre Serre Copy Share Image
Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets… — Bernard Bolzano Copy Share Image
The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not. To every sum in there is already a… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
No mathematician of equal stature has risen from our generation... Hilbert was singularly free from national and racial prejudices; in all public… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it… — Tom Stoppard 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
Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail,… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel! — Noga Alon Copy Share Image
Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
