Class Quote by Eric Temple Bell

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

— Felix Klein

[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering of the…

— Thomas Little Heath

“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

“I spoke of the 'real' mathematics of Fermat and other great mathematicians, the mathematics which has permanent aesthetic value, as for example the best…

— G.H. Hardy

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

— Henri Poincare

“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

Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg…

— Daniel Tammet

Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

— Ogyu Sorai

Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable three, Archimedes,…

— Eric Temple Bell