Mathematicians Quotes

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There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or… — Paul Lockhart
In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but… — M.C. Escher
Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the… — M.C. Escher
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. — Daniel Bernoulli
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to… — G. H. Hardy
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly… — John Naughton
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of… — James R Newman
The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight. — Philip J. Davis
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy. — Maxwell Rosenlicht
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. — Morris Kline
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that… — Archimedes
Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation. — Richard P. Feynman
One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature,… — Richard P. Feynman
"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why,… — Arthur Porges
I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made… — Roger Penrose
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. — Samuil Shatunovsky
Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step… — J. Robert Oppenheimer

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