Epoch Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to…

— Eric Temple Bell

“I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever allow himself…

— G.H. Hardy

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

— Bill Gaede

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not…

— G. H. Hardy

I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum…

— G. H. Hardy

Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining…

— David Bentley Hart

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed…

— Arthur Koestler

Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

— Daniel Bernoulli

Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable three, Archimedes,…

— Eric Temple Bell

I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.

— Richard P. Feynman