Mathematician Quotes

402 quotes by 263 authors

People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling,… — Edward Frenkel
Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should… — Terence Tao
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into… — J. Arthur Thomson
The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore… — Christopher Zeeman
But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year ago,… — Hiram Maxim
I actually started in the opposite place. I come from a technical background - I'm a mathematician and a programmer by trade - and I… — Michael Loceff
That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician. — Albert Einstein
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. — Pablo Picasso
Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work. — Leonardo da Vinci
One can always reason with reason. — Henri Bergson
A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory. — Paul Erdos
A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket,… — Norbert Wiener
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured… — Arthur Eddington
Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite. — Bernard Bolzano
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical… — Abraham Robinson
I have created a new universe from nothing. — Janos Bolyai
A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with numbers; in fact… — Jo Boaler
What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a… — Galileo Galilei
In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are… — Robert Musil

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