Mathematics by mathematicians Quotes

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

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

— Tobias Dantzig

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

— Johannes Kepler

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

— George Dantzig

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

— Maxwell Rosenlicht

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

— Martin Gardner

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

— Charles Darwin

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

— Isaac Barrow

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

— Bernhard Riemann

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

— Paul Halmos

I was x years old in the year x2.

— Augustus De Morgan

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

— Albert Einstein

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

— Paul Dirac

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

— Marston Morse

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

— G. H. Hardy

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

— Hermann Weyl

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

— Joseph Fourier

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

— Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

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

— William Wordsworth

Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

— John Allen Paulos

We never know what we are talking about.

— Karl Popper

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

— G. H. Hardy

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

— Carl Benjamin Boyer

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