Mathematician Quotes

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It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul. — Sofia Kovalevskaya
[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to PoincarÃ©:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact. — Gabriel Lippmann
The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view. — Roger Bacon
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize… — Edsger Dijkstra
I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you. — Steven Strogatz
The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a… — Eugene Wigner
In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night,… — Michael Atiyah
Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians all over the… — David Auburn
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. — Augustus De Morgan
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even time...… — Julia Robinson
It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules. However, in our… — Jean-Pierre Serre
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. — Evan Esar
Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment… — James Clerk Maxwell
To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell
The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be sure,… — George Dantzig
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as… — Michael Faraday
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and… — Gosta Mittag-Leffler
"I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract from his physical… — David Starr Jordan
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth. — George Bernard Shaw
Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions of freedom. The… — Michael Strong

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