Max-weber Quote by Max Weber

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head…

— Max Weber

“I thought about the hours we spent practicing increasingly complex math problems. He taught me that lack of knowledge and lack of intelligence were…

— J.D. Vance

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges

“The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond…

— Muhammad Waseem

“What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school?”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Mathematics is a tool which ideally permits mediocre minds to solve complicated problems expeditiously.”

— Floyd Alburn Firestone

“Sometimes the most effective idea was just so simple that nobody could slow down their brain enough to think it up.”

— R. Curtis Venture

“He was not a very careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes. But he made mistakes in a good direction.…

— Goro Shimura

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

— Iris Murdoch

“the Friedmans did it all despite having little to no training in mathematics.”

— Jason Fagone

The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass…

— Ernst Mach

“Mathematicians need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.”

— Paul Hoffman