Mathematician Quotes

402 quotes by 263 authors

The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying. — Jean Dieudonne
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain… — M.C. Escher
If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where, if you inform… — Martin Gardner
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant… — Martin Gardner
All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics. — Martin Gardner
In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we can find answers… — W. W. Sawyer
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex… — Bill Bryson
The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to… — Samuel Johnson
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess,… — Emanuel Lasker
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. — Alfred North Whitehead
All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians. — Thelonious Monk
I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything… — John Edensor Littlewood
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to… — Thomas Reid
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. — Plato
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external… — Stanislaw Ulam
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. — Ogyu Sorai
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness,… — George Sarton
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the… — Sofia Kovalevskaya
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we… — Alonzo Church
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger… — Alan Turing

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