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Mathematician Quotes by Norbert Wiener
- The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a…
- One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.
- A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket,…
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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
- 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
- It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas… — Richard Courant
- Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. — Henri Poincare
- The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot