Mathematician Quotes

402 quotes by 263 authors

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. — Alan Turing
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. — Andrew Wiles
In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time. — E. O. Wilson
God is an awesome mathematician and physicist. — Francis Collins
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life.… — Peter Cameron
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. — Albert Einstein
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in… — Henry David Thoreau
Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent… — Terry Pratchett
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. — Voltaire
Dess shook her head. "Before he walked off, Rex said for you to wait. He said it's totally important you don't touch Angie until he… — Scott Westerfeld
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. — William James
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was… — Virginia Woolf
TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians debutantes spinsters fishermen… — Connie Willis
So now I'm going back again I got to get her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion to me now… — Bob Dylan
This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form) — Albert Einstein
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process. — B.F. Skinner

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