Mathematicians Quotes

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Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood. — Edward Norton Lorenz
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified… — James Gleick
What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual… — David Ruelle
A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well… — David Mumford
Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is… — Barry Mazur
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. — Andre Weil
The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ... — Leon M. Lederman
The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world. — Bill Gaede
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. — Bill Gaede
Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very… — Dirk Jan Struik
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. — Andrew Wiles
Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are… — Andrew Wiles
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus. — W. W. Rouse Ball
Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance… — Gian-Carlo Rota
It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and ensure the rigour… — Gottlob Frege
But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and from the motions… — Galileo Galilei
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the… — Henri Poincare
They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly… — Robin Wasserman
Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way. — Tom Lehrer
There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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