Ability Quote by Stanislaw Ulam

“He was "a magician, a magician in the sense that he took what was given and simply forced the conclusions logically out of it,…

— Robert Leonard

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon…

— Stanislaw Ulam

There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a…

— George Polya

The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity,…

— Anonymous

“Like most people who knew themselves to be naturally favored with intelligence, his natural ego had led him unconsciously to doubt that there was…

— Gordon R. Dickson

Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist.

— Victor Frederick Weisskopf

“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

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct…

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

“ John Dalton was a very singular Man: He has none of the manners or ways of the world. A tolerable mathematician He gained…

— Humphry Davy

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or…

— W. H. Auden

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