Mathematician Quotes

402 quotes by 263 authors

You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy. — Maxwell Rosenlicht
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride… — David Mumford
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between. — George Polya
A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. — Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch
The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. — Augustus De Morgan
Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention. — Richard Courant
"Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange
"Read Euler: he is our master in everything." — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. — Morris Kline
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that… — Archimedes
Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation. — Richard P. Feynman
One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature,… — Richard P. Feynman
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the… — G. H. Hardy
"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why,… — Arthur Porges
I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made… — Roger Penrose
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. — Samuil Shatunovsky

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