Mathematicians Quotes

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In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last… — Keith Devlin
The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though… — Albert Einstein
People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling,… — Edward Frenkel
Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should… — Terence Tao
But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year ago,… — Hiram Maxim
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. — Pablo Picasso
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical… — Abraham Robinson
I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with numbers; in fact… — Jo Boaler
What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a… — Galileo Galilei
In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are… — Robert Musil
Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven… — Charles Krauthammer
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician… — Clifford Geertz
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. — Brian Greene
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In… — Graham Greene
Mathematics is written for mathematicians. — Nicolaus Copernicus
Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. — Edsger Dijkstra
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. — Edsger Dijkstra
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that… — Leonhard Euler

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