Human spirit Quote by William Dunham

“In my view, Euler's tranquil temperament, fairness, and generosity were integral to his greatness as a mathematician and scientist- he was never inclined to…

— David Stipp

It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus…

— Thomas Reid

“In his eulogy, the Marquis de Condorcet observed that whosoever pursues mathematics in the future will be "guided and sustained by the genius of…

— William Dunham

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

— George Bernard Shaw

“I have been able to solve a few problems of mathematical physics on which the greatest mathematicians since Euler have struggled in vain ...…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in…

— Bernard Bolzano

“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

“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 mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it…

— Henri Poincare

It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations,…

— George Santayana

“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.”

— Karl Weierstrass

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

— Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza