Famous quotes by Mathematicians

"Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Eureka! - I have found it!"

Archimedes, 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

"It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"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"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"In 1860, a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"I think Veblen had an interest in logic"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"Until I was four years old, I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Quite likely, the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

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