Abel Quote by Charles Hermite

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.

— Charles Hermite

“ Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.”

— Charles Hermite

“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of…

— Eric Temple Bell

No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois…

— Anonymous

“I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever allow himself…

— G.H. Hardy

Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still, from…

— Alexander Grothendieck

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

— Bill Gaede

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less…

— G. H. Hardy

Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Mathematics is as old as Man.

— Stefan Banach

I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.

— Richard P. Feynman