Mathematicians Quotes

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All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics. — Martin Gardner
The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to… — Samuel Johnson
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. — Alfred North Whitehead
All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians. — Thelonious Monk
I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything… — John Edensor Littlewood
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. — Ogyu Sorai
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness,… — George Sarton
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we… — Alonzo Church
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger… — Alan Turing
Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all rolled into one, — Mary Tyler Moore
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascalâ€¦ like all… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Mathematicians practice absolute freedom. — Henry Adams
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found… — R. B. Braithwaite
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of… — Francis Crick
If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight face… — Susan Jacoby
Mathematicians are born, not made. — Henri Poincare
Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the… — Henri Poincare
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful? — Martin Gardner
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. — Felix Klein

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