Mathematician Quotes

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The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world. — Bill Gaede
A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line,… — Bill Gaede
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. — Bill Gaede
A mathematician is anï»¿ individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts. — Bill Gaede
A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye. — Bill Gaede
A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction. — Bill Gaede
A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science. — Bill Gaede
A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with… — Bill Gaede
It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib. — Bill Gosper
Mankind has moved away from the heart of the world to the logic of the mind, and their belief is in the chemist, the physicist,… — Drunvalo Melchizedek
Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very… — Dirk Jan Struik
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. — Andrew Wiles
Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are… — Andrew Wiles
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally… — Aristotle
Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician,… — Rafe Esquith
To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so… — Blaise Pascal
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus. — W. W. Rouse Ball
Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance… — Gian-Carlo Rota
You ought to have seen FrÃ©dÃ©ric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it… — Unknown Author
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs. — Aristotle

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