Mathematicians Quotes

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Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who… — Louis J. Mordell
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be… — Lewis Fry Richardson
...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians… — Henri Poincare
A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and… — Timothy Gowers
The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that… — William Thurston
Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to… — William Thurston
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. — M.C. Escher
I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer… — John Forbes Nash
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy. — Francis Crick
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble… — Alfred Korzybski
I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all… — M.C. Escher
Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest,… — Saint Augustine
Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet." — John Allen Paulos
Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes. — Richard Hamming
Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle. — Honore de Balzac
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible? — Henri Poincare
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it. — Aristotle
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change.… — Henri Poincare
They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit… — Tobias Dantzig

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