Inspirational Quote by Albert Einstein

Pure mathematics offers no mercenary inducements to its followers, who is attracted to it by the importance and beauty of the truths in contains;…

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

“I spoke of the 'real' mathematics of Fermat and other great mathematicians, the mathematics which has permanent aesthetic value, as for example the best…

— G.H. Hardy

... there are those who believe that mathematics can sustain itself and grow without any further contact with anything outside itself, and those who…

— Mark Kac

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws…

— Samuel Johnson

I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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

— Isadore Singer

Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same…

— Edward Abbey

Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise they are…

— Blaise Pascal

“One rather curious conclusion emerges, that pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. ... For what is useful above all…

— G.H. Hardy

A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can only specialise…

— George Polya

“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such…

— Bertrand Russell