Has beens Quote by Steven Weinberg

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

— Tom Lehrer

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed…

— Alfred North Whitehead

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

— Voltaire

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

— Anonymous

“Somewhere out there is a theory that would explain my empirical observations, and this theory has yet to be discovered. Mathematics thrives on such…

— Henri Darmon

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

— Brian Greene

The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics.

— Bill Gaede

“Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.”

— richard feynman

Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

— Roger Lewin

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

— Albert Einstein