“A mathematician is an individual who proves his beliefs with equations.” — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do. — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
“If war were arithmetic, then the mathematicians would rule the world. (Lord Petyr Baelish)” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It is true that doing original math is 'lonely.' But it is also true that professional mathematicians compose a community.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.” — Walter Isaacson 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
“We mathematicians understand that without the education of children, the economy cannot grow, and the world would starve from ignorance.” — V.M.Robinson 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
“In his eulogy, the Marquis de Condorcet observed that whosoever pursues mathematics in the future will be "guided and sustained by the… — William Dunham 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
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. — Ogyu Sorai Copy Share Image
Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles… — Tom Noddy Copy Share Image
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential… — Freeman Dyson 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 never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have… — Gian-Carlo Rota 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
“The black female mathematicians who walked into Langley in 1943 would find themselves at the intersection of these great transformations, their sharp… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“The things that fascinate me the most about mathematics are logical thought and the great importance attached to the correctness of propositions.… — Barbara Meier Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are proud of the fact that, generally, they do their work with a piece of chalk and a blackboard. They value… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
“Strange as it may seem, not all of the great mathematicians have been professors in colleges or universities. Quite a few were… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood. — Edward Norton Lorenz Copy Share Image
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“ Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.” — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently. — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. — Daniel Bernoulli Copy Share Image
“Engineers can compute but not define, mathematicians can define but not compute, economists can neither define nor compute.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
“There was no such thing as a straight line until mathematicians invented one.” — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
An important aspect of being a scientist isn't just knowing the math, but also knowing of imagination. — George Zafiris Copy Share Image
