Analogy Quote by Niels Henrik Abel

Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about…

— Rene Dubos

“So he went on stringing together these and other absurdities, all in the style of those his books had taught him, imitating their language…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“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

Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species…

— Fred Hoyle

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

“That this blind and aging man forged ahead with such gusto is a remarkable lesson, a tale for the ages. Euler's courage, determination, and…

— William Dunham

“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

“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry] ”

— David Hilbert

“Dick Feynman was a genius of visualization (he was also no slouch with equations): he made a mental picture of anything he was working…

— Leonard Susskind

“A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed by everyone.”

— Isaac Asimov

“I remember that he was always trying to expound to me in his broken Russian some special system of astronomy he had invented. I…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky