Mathematicians Quotes

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Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting… — Howard Whitley Eves
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to… — Freeman Dyson
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the… — Eric Temple Bell
Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically… — Keith Devlin
Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful… — Constance Reid
Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so Ã¼bersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach
It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who,… — Hans Reichenbach
PoincarÃ© [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic… — Eric Temple Bell
The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians… — Gian-Carlo Rota
[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to PoincarÃ©:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact. — Gabriel Lippmann
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize… — Edsger Dijkstra
In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night,… — Michael Atiyah
Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians all over the… — David Auburn
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. — Augustus De Morgan
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even time...… — Julia Robinson
It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules. However, in our… — Jean-Pierre Serre
Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions of freedom. The… — Michael Strong
Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom. — Joseph Warren
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. — James Clerk Maxwell

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