Famous quotes by Mathematicians

"A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic"

Ronald Fisher, Mathematician

"Natural selection is not evolution"

Ronald Fisher, Mathematician

"In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research"

Ronald Fisher, Mathematician

"I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics, most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences"

Ronald Fisher, Mathematician

"There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method"

Max Born, Mathematician

"Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless"

Max Born, Mathematician

"The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world"

Max Born, Mathematician

"And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones"

Max Born, Mathematician

"Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education"

Paul Erdos, Mathematician

"God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers"

Paul Erdos, Mathematician

"Property is a nuisance"

Paul Erdos, Mathematician

"I hope we'll be able to solve these problems before we leave"

Paul Erdos, Mathematician

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems"

Paul Erdos, Mathematician

"My brain is open"

Paul Erdos, Mathematician

"I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers"

Georg Cantor, Mathematician

"A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One"

Georg Cantor, Mathematician

"Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century"

Andrew Wiles, Mathematician

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