"There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes,……" — Carl Friedrich Gauss
"There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein."
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57 Quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss
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...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the…
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the…
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My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a…
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As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle…
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Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.
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If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
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Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.
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Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.
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A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the…
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In mathematics there are no true controversies.
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In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much…
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It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of…
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More Archimedes Quotes
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in…
— Voltaire
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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a…
— G. H. Hardy
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Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
— William Rowan Hamilton
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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have…
— Ernest Dimnet
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
— Mikhail Lermontov
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Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown…
— Plutarch
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Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances.…
— Nikola Tesla
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
— Felix Klein
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It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my…
— Joseph Conrad
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Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest…
— Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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