"Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is…" — Andre Weil

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• A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies… — Stefan Banach
• We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been… — William Wordsworth
• If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he… — Alfred Tarski
• If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer… — G. H. Hardy
• The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say… — Bertrand Russell
• ...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies,… — James Jeans
• It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and… — Richard Courant
• Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. — Henri Poincare
• We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer;… — James Jeans
• For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one… — Henri Poincare
• The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate… — Benoit Mandelbrot
• Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man… — Baruch Spinoza

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