Mathematician Quotes

402 quotes by 263 authors

You know" - Hale's breath was warm against Kat's ear in the chilly ballroom- "I don't know that both of us really have to be… — Ally Carter
(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all. — Edgar Allan Poe
Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation. — Catherynne M. Valente
Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result in a great… — Catherynne M. Valente
As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was… — Susan Cain
Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income. — Isaac Asimov
As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by… — Norman Maclean
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with… — Saint Augustine
I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians. — Richard P. Feynman
I knew a mathematician who said 'I do not know as much as God. But I know as much as God knew at my age'. — Milton Shulman
Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their… — Alfred Adler
The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester. — Joel Henry Hildebrand
When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed, since… — Bertrand Russell
The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our mechanicians, in like… — Simon Newcomb
A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more… — Gian-Carlo Rota
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died… — G. H. Hardy
The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then,… — Alfred Adler
When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in… — Mark Haddon
Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research… — Noam Chomsky

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