Mathematicians Quotes · Page 4

“It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand…

— G. K. Chesterton

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

— Bob Dylan

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

— Tom Lehrer

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

— George Woodcock

You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.

— Maxwell Rosenlicht

“Mathematicians need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.”

— Paul Hoffman

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.

— Charles Hermite

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of…

— Dominic Cummings

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

— Keith Devlin

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason…

— Leonhard Euler

What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like…

— Galileo Galilei

Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.

— Ron Eglash

Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the…

— Eric Temple Bell

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

— Martin Gardner

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions…

— Francis Crick

I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For…

— Archimedes

Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all…

— Henry Markram

Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it…

— Keith Devlin

In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour.…

— Michael Atiyah

Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and…

— James R Newman

Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight,…

— Gil Kalai

I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with…

— Jo Boaler

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

— Andrew Wiles

There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones.

— Lipman Bers

“If there were formula for success, mathematicians would have definitely held the top spot in the world's richest list.”

— JOHN TASKINSOY

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.

— Timothy Gowers

It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless.

— Isadore Singer

The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics.

— Bill Gaede

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

— Martin Gardner

The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight.

— Philip J. Davis

Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

— Charles Hermite

Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.

— Henri Poincare

Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in…

— Charles Krauthammer

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

If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with…

— Susan Jacoby

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know…

— Andrew Wiles

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