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Mathematician Quotes by George Polya
- The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new problems. By this…
- I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.
- Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had gone off to…
- A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can only specialise is…
More Mathematician Quotes
- 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
- 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
- ...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of… — James Jeans