Mathematician Quotes

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It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and ensure the rigour… — Gottlob Frege
Wormholes were first introduced to the public over a century ago in a book written by an Oxford mathematician. Perhaps realizing that adults might frown… — Michio Kaku
But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and from the motions… — Galileo Galilei
This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes,… — Isaac Newton
Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had gone off to… — George Polya
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer might be replaced… — Henri Poincare
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the… — Henri Poincare
The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one… — W. Somerset Maugham
They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly… — Robin Wasserman
Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way. — Tom Lehrer
There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but… — Edsger Dijkstra
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his… — Paul Halmos
I don't care if you are a good mathematician, or a good athletic, or not good at anything- that you think. But I'm gonna come… — Nick Vujicic
I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics,… — G. H. Hardy
If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be far better than… — G. H. Hardy
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel...We find… — Nikola Tesla
We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists.… — Tupac Shakur
The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount of space. How… — Marcus du Sautoy

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