Mathematician Quotes

402 quotes by 263 authors

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful? — Martin Gardner
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. — Felix Klein
Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing… — Yehuda Amichai
The whole thing that makes a mathematicianâ€™s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues. — Donald Knuth
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or… — Paul Lockhart
In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but… — M.C. Escher
Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the… — M.C. Escher
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. — Daniel Bernoulli
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to… — G. H. Hardy
No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game — G. H. Hardy
We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known… — Daniel Tammet
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly… — John Naughton
Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naÃ¯vetÃ© of the mathematician himself. — Abraham Kaplan
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of… — James R Newman
I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations. — Hugh Hopper
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of… — Marston Morse
The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight. — Philip J. Davis
When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But… — Edward Kasner
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in Boulder] and Aram… — Jonathan Sarfati

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