“And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so… — Natalie Dormer 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 aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know… — Andrew Wiles 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
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
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
Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in… — Patrick Soon-Shiong 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
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For… — Archimedes 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
“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
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
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
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
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful? — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry. — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of… — Dominic Cummings 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
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics). — Keith Devlin 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 boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. — Ogyu Sorai 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
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
As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“O the grey dull day! It seemed a limbo of painless patient consciousness through which souls of mathematicians might wander, projecting long… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
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