Mathematician Quotes

402 quotes by 247 authors

To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not. To every sum in there is already a correct answer, whether… — Grenville Kleiser
It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her. — Steven Weinberg
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine is a matter… — J. W. N. Sullivan
Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes. — Richard Hamming
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle. — Honore de Balzac
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have… — George Edward Woodberry
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician. — Samuel Johnson
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible? — Henri Poincare
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it. — Aristotle
In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because… — Scarlett Thomas
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change.… — Henri Poincare
They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit… — Tobias Dantzig
In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last… — Keith Devlin
Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician. — Jerry Buss
Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in conductors, which all… — Oliver Heaviside
The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though… — Albert Einstein
The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson
I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton… — David Chalmers
My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician. — David Chalmers

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