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Mathematicians Quotes
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Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. (Quote by - Leonhard Euler)
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible? (Quote by - Henri Poincare)
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. (Quote by - Tolstoy)
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. (Quote by - Graham Greene)
Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum. (Quote by - Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge. (Quote by - Anonymous)
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Eddington)
There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics. (Quote by - Archimedes of Syracus)
As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know. (Quote by - Stephen Cole Kleene)
There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel. (Quote by - Aristotle)
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. (Quote by - Roger Bacon)
There is no royal road to geometry. (Quote by - Euclid of Alexandria)
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way. (Quote by - Benoit Mandelbrot)