Famous quotes by Mathematicians

"The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers"

John Britton, Mathematician

"I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location"

John Forbes Nash, Jr., Mathematician

"I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time"

John Forbes Nash, Jr., Mathematician

"A precisely made iron chain 22 yards in length, consisting of 100 links"

Edmund Gunter, Mathematician

"I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy, as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health"

John Forbes Nash, Jr., Mathematician

"I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release"

John Forbes Nash, Jr., Mathematician

"I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research"

John Forbes Nash, Jr., Mathematician

"Wherefore, for the public interest and benefit of human society, it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"That in affairs of very considerable importance, men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed, whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church?"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"I pass by that; it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"Even private persons, in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure"

Gerard Debreu, Mathematician

"The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do"

Gerard Debreu, Mathematician

"In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests"

Gerard Debreu, Mathematician

"I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium"

Gerard Debreu, Mathematician

"What is crucial is there be laws"

Andre Weil, Mathematician

"Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men"

Andre Weil, Mathematician

"Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often"

Andre Weil, Mathematician

"God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it"

Andre Weil, Mathematician

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