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Mathematician Quotes by Martin Gardner
- If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where, if you inform…
- Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant…
- All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.
- The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told…
- A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?
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
- 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
- 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
- The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot
- 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
- If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be,… — Cassius Jackson Keyser