Famous quotes by Mathematicians

"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"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"I don't seek power and do not run around"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud, you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches"

Felix Klein, Mathematician

"Of course, there are diseases of which people die"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"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"

Leonhard Euler, Mathematician

"For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear"

Leonhard Euler, Mathematician

"Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs"

Felix Klein, Mathematician

"To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be"

Leonhard Euler, Mathematician

"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions"

Felix Klein, Mathematician

"Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: All of us"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g., biology) to evaluate certain technical matters"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

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