Mathematicians Quotes
194 quotes by 140 authors
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...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own inner…
— James Jeans
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It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind…
— Richard Courant
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
— Henri Poincare
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For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the senses…
— Henri Poincare
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The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous.…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which…
— Baruch Spinoza
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Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even…
— G. H. Hardy
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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…
— Eric Temple Bell
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In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions,…
— Alfred Adler
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[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
— Henry Adams
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product…
— Edwin Howard Armstrong
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In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound Chern-Weil…
— Chen-Ning Yang
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Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware…
— Ernest Nagel
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Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of…
— Robert Kanigel
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How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him…
— Clifford Truesdell
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Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
— Eric Temple Bell
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True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and…
— David O. McKay
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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain…
— M.C. Escher
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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…
— Martin Gardner
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