Mathematician Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss Download Open image “Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.” — Carl Friedrich Gauss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mathematician Programming Shoulders
Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes. — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
“In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still, from… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even… — Julia Robinson Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles they're like… — Tom Noddy Copy Share Image
In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects, philosophers in concepts, geometers in images, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators, writers in impressions, and idiots… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platonic forms. An ice palace. But they also live… — Sylvain Cappell Copy Share Image
All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound... { His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare }” — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and other… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms! — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps, posterity will… — Pierre De Fermat Copy Share Image
If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
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