Famous quotes by Mathematicians

"The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence"

James Joseph Sylvester, Mathematician

James Joseph Sylvester

"There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down"

Paul Erdos, Mathematician

"The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

Pythagoras

"Reason is immortal, all else mortal"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

Pythagoras

"No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

Pythagoras

"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

Rene Descartes

"A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

Rene Descartes

"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

Alfred North Whitehead

"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

Alfred North Whitehead

"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

Alfred North Whitehead

"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

Alfred North Whitehead

"I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art"

G. H. Hardy, Mathematician

G. H. Hardy

"Mathematicians are born, not made"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

Henri Poincare

"We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions"

Ronald Fisher, Mathematician

Ronald Fisher

"The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry"

James Joseph Sylvester, Mathematician

James Joseph Sylvester

"Mathematics is the music of reason"

James Joseph Sylvester, Mathematician

James Joseph Sylvester

"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"

Andrew Wiles, Mathematician

"It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof'"

Ronald Graham, Mathematician

"No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful"

George Boole, Mathematician

George Boole

"Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

Pythagoras

"Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

Pythagoras

"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances"

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

Isaac Newton

"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then, finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me"

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

Isaac Newton

"Perfect numbers, like perfect men, are very rare"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

Rene Descartes

"One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

Rene Descartes

"I think; therefore I am"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

Rene Descartes

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

Rene Descartes

"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

Charles Babbage

"Seek simplicity but distrust it"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

Alfred North Whitehead

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

Alfred North Whitehead

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