Mathematicians Quotes

194 quotes by 132 authors

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but… — Edsger Dijkstra
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics,… — G. H. Hardy
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel...We find… — Nikola Tesla
We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists.… — Tupac Shakur
I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I… — Harry Golombek
Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and surprises. Unfortunately there… — James R Newman
One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may… — Philip J. Davis
Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library. — George Henry Lewes
If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have,… — Paul Halmos
Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments… — Antoine Lavoisier
Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years. — Charles Hermite
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to… — James Clerk Maxwell
Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows… — Thomas A. Edison
Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't. — Jane Goodall
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic; the mathematical set… — Augustus De Morgan
[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration… — G. H. Hardy
What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? — Albert Einstein

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