Mathematician Quotes

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Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows… — Thomas A. Edison
Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't. — Jane Goodall
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman. — Francois Arago
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... — Farkas Bolyai
The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the… — G. H. Hardy
The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty. — Bertrand Russell
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable… — George Bernard Shaw
We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or later… — John Desmond Bernal
We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic; the mathematical set… — Augustus De Morgan
[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration… — G. H. Hardy
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most… — G. H. Hardy
What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? — Albert Einstein
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the… — Frederick The Great
It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different,… — John Edensor Littlewood
Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who… — Louis J. Mordell
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description… — Karl Pearson
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be… — Lewis Fry Richardson
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or… — George Santayana

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