Famous quotes by Mathematicians

"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done"

Alan Turing, Mathematician

"Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books"

G. H. Hardy, Mathematician

"There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds"

G. H. Hardy, Mathematician

"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics"

G. H. Hardy, Mathematician

"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten because languages die and mathematical ideas do not"

G. H. Hardy, Mathematician

"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"Hypotheses are what we lack the least"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"Mathematics is the music of reason"

James Joseph Sylvester, Mathematician

"If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success"

Max Born, Mathematician

"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about"

John von Neumann, Mathematician

"I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life what had been my childhood dream"

Andrew Wiles, Mathematician

"A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs; and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories"

Stefan Banach, Mathematician

"Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit"

Stefan Banach, Mathematician

"I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes"

Edward Witten, Mathematician

"The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past"

Norbert Wiener, Mathematician

"But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius"

Marston Morse, Mathematician

"Information is the resolution of uncertainty"

Claude Shannon, Mathematician

"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics"

Charles Hermite, Mathematician

"Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk"

Leonhard Euler, Mathematician

"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure"

Felix Klein, Mathematician

"Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

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