Mathematician Quotes

402 quotes by 263 authors

I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It… — Tom Stoppard
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function… — Eric Kandel
I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology… — Whitfield Diffie
I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the museum… — Whitfield Diffie
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment… — James C. Maxwell
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music:… — James Joseph Sylvester
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half… — E. T. Bell
No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does. — Henri Poincare
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they… — G. H. Hardy
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. — James Jeans
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
My advice to you all mathematician is that don't give up just keep fighting or sacrificing to found out the answer or the solution in… — Mark Elman Langaman
Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit. — David Krumholtz
It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. — Augustus De Morgan
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would… — Edgar Allan Poe
I'm in the business of helping stories get told, and I love this story. People don't say to me, When you were in Proof, were… — Jake Gyllenhaal
The mathematics faculty were encouraging me to shift into mathematics as my major and explaining to me that it was not almost impossible to make… — John Nash
God is the original Mathematician — Frenchqueen

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