Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws. — Roger Lewin Copy Share Image
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz,… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least… — Richard Askey 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
The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this;… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with… — Jo Boaler Copy Share Image
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
As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and… — Norman Maclean 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
Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics — Max Black Copy Share Image
Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation. — Richard P. Feynman 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
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she… — Edmund Landau Copy Share Image
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to… — J. Arthur Thomson Copy Share Image
Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Oh yes, children often commit murders. And quite clever ones, too. Some murderers, particularly the distinguished ones who are going to make… — John Lee Mahin Copy Share Image
“From the intellectual point of view an abyss may exist between a great mathematician and his boot maker, but from the point… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia… — Ernest Nagel Copy Share Image
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
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