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Mathematician Quotes by Eric Temple Bell
- In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the…
- Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the…
- Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic…
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- A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs… — Stefan Banach
- In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen… — Alfred Adler
- The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit… — G. H. Hardy
- Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
- It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits.… — Aristotle
- We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up… — William Wordsworth
- If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for… — Alfred Tarski
- The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds… — Bertrand Russell