"Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is…" — Andre Weil
"Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men."
—
Andre Weil
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
More Mathematician Quotes
This quote is filed under Mathematician Quotes,
one of 402 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
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
See all 402 Mathematician Quotes »