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)
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)
To think logically the logically thinkable - that is the mathematician's aim. (Quote by - C. J. Keyser)
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself any more. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite. (Quote by - Bernhard Bolzano)
I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician? (Quote by - James Caballero)
The essence of mathematics is its freedom. (Quote by - Geoge Cantor)
The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying. (Quote by - Jean Dieudonne)
What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians. (Quote by - Thelonious Monk)
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. (Quote by - Ralph Boas)
I would rather discover one scientific fact than become King of Persia. (Quote by - Democritus)
I was x years old in the year x^2. (Quote by - Augustus de Morgan)
For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal. (Quote by - Stephen Cole Kleene)
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. (Quote by - Max Wilhelm Dehn)
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable. (Quote by - Abraham Robinson)
It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. (Quote by - Augustus de Morgan)
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions. (Quote by - Alonzo Church)
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or poet's, must be beautiful. The ideas, like the colors or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: There is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.-- G. H. Hardy)
The mathematics is not there till we put it there. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Eddington)
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. (Quote by - Felix Klein)
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. (Quote by - Brian Greene)
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. (Quote by - James C. Maxwell)
He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. (Quote by - Niels H. Abel)
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. (Quote by - John Von Neumann)
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. (Quote by - Plato)
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. (Quote by - Andre Weil)
Mathematics is the door and key to the sciences. (Quote by - Roger Bacon)
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. (Quote by - W.H. Auden)
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. (Quote by - Edsger Dijkstra)
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. (Quote by - Vannevar Bush)
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. (Quote by - Daniel Bernoulli)
I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. (Quote by - George Woodcock)
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. (Quote by - Johann von Neumann)
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either. (Quote by - Evan Esar)
Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. (Quote by - Felix Klein)
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls. (Quote by - Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev)
Willingly would I burn to death like Phaeton, were this the price for reaching the sun and learning its shape, its size and its substance. (Quote by - Eudoxus of Cnidus)
Mathematicians are born, not made. (Quote by - Henri Poincare)
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Eddington)
Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity. (Quote by - Andrew Wiles)
Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way. (Quote by - Max Wilhelm Dehn)
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. (Quote by - Roger Bacon)
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. (Quote by - Arthur Cayley)
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. (Quote by - Max Wilhelm Dehn)
Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. (Quote by - James McNeill Whistler)
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. (Quote by - Philip J. Davis)
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. (Quote by - Andrew Wiles)
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful? (Quote by - Martin Gardner)
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician. (Quote by - Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege)
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. (Quote by - Edsger Dijkstra)
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. (Quote by - P.W. Bridgman)
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. (Quote by - Carl Friedrich Gauss)
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. (Quote by - E. T. Bell)
I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea. (Quote by - Frank Wilczek)
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense. (Quote by - Charles R. Darwin)
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics. (Quote by - Carl Friedrich Gauss)
Mathematics is written for mathematicians. (Quote by - Nicolaus Copernicus )
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. (Quote by - Andrew Wiles)
Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality? (Quote by - Max Wilhelm Dehn)
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. (Quote by - Gosta Mittag-Leffler)
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future. (Quote by - Andrew Wiles)
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. (Quote by - Edsger Dijkstra)
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless. (Quote by - Euripides)
You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy. (Quote by - Max Rosenlicht)
With me everything turns into mathematics. (Quote by - Max Wilhelm Dehn)
A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. (Quote by - Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch)
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. (Quote by - Bertrand Arthur William Russell)
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. (Quote by - Rene Descartes)
I have created a new universe from nothing. (Quote by - Janos Bolyai)
One can always reason with reason. (Quote by - Heri Bergson)
The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful. (Quote by - Henri Poincare)
No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be occupied with the ideas of number and quantity. (Quote by - George Boole)
Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years. (Quote by - Charles Hermite)
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. (Quote by - Carl Friedrich Gauss)
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. (Quote by - Henri Poincare)
Revolutions never occur in mathematics. (Quote by - Michael Crowe)
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything. (Quote by - Pierre de Fermat)
