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- Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.
- It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found…
- You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.
- "Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why,…
- It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.
- 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…
- 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...…
- Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.
- 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…
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- In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen… — Alfred Adler
- Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
- ...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of… — James Jeans
- It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas… — Richard Courant
- Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. — Henri Poincare
- The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot
- Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that… — Baruch Spinoza
- In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading… — Eric Temple Bell