Mathematician Quotes

402 quotes by 263 authors

Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the… — Antoine Lavoisier
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work… — Thomas Huxley
I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I… — Harry Golombek
The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions. — Charles Sanders Peirce
Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and surprises. Unfortunately there… — James R Newman
If anything runs deeper than a mathematicianâ€™s love of variables, itâ€™s a scientistâ€™s love of constants. — Sam Kean
One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may… — Philip J. Davis
Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library. — George Henry Lewes
If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have,… — Paul Halmos
Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments… — Antoine Lavoisier
When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is… — Henri Poincare
A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with… — G. H. Hardy
Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years. — Charles Hermite
An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator. — Isaac Barrow
I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of… — G. H. Hardy
I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings… — Johannes Kepler
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with… — Augustus De Morgan
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those conceptions of form… — Charles Kingsley
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to… — James Clerk Maxwell

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