Mathematician Quotes

402 quotes by 263 authors

Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven… — Charles Krauthammer
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two… — Zach Galifianakis
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician… — Clifford Geertz
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. — Brian Greene
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In… — Graham Greene
Mathematics is written for mathematicians. — Nicolaus Copernicus
Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the… — Nicolaus Copernicus
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but… — Jacques Derrida
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. — Edsger Dijkstra
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. — Edsger Dijkstra
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential… — Edsger Dijkstra
I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is… — Freeman Dyson
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. — Havelock Ellis
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. — Paul Erdos
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that… — Leonhard Euler
And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences.… — Vince Flynn
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are… — G. H. Hardy
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! — Alexander Pope

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