Mathematics by mathematicians Quotes

Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

— John Allen Paulos

We never know what we are talking about.

— Karl Popper

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

— Albert Einstein

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

— Edward Kasner

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

— Martin Gardner

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

— Johannes Kepler

I was x years old in the year x2.

— Augustus De Morgan

If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.

— Bernhard Riemann

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

— Hermann Weyl

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.

— Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

— Isaac Barrow

Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

— Paul Halmos

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

— Marston Morse

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

— William Wordsworth

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

— Carl Benjamin Boyer

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

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

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid.…

— Gosta Mittag-Leffler

Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so…

— Henri Poincare

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power…

— Paul Dirac

The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit.…

— George Dantzig

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

— G. H. Hardy

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

— Tobias Dantzig

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

— Charles Darwin

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

— Joseph Fourier

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

— Maxwell Rosenlicht

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

— G. H. Hardy

It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

— Augustus De Morgan

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

— Paul Halmos

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

— Claude Fayette Bragdon

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

— Henri Poincare

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

— Blaise Pascal

Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."

— David Malet Armstrong

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

— Samuil Shatunovsky

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

— Evan Esar

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least…

— Richard Askey

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at…

— Lynn Steen

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have…

— Saint Augustine