Famous quotes by Mathematicians

"Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability"

Claude Shannon, Mathematician

"This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"To sum up: It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years"

Charles Hermite, Mathematician

"When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations, its rules have changed"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"Order doesn't come by itself"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact"

Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician

"If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. Find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"At the end of April, I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field"

Alonzo Church, Mathematician

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world"

Archimedes, Mathematician

"As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained"

Arthur Cayley, Mathematician

"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful"

Hermann Weyl, Mathematician

"Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe"

Janos Bolyai, Mathematician

"As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock"

William Emerson, Mathematician

"Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express"

James C. Maxwell, Mathematician

"Life is good for only two things: discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics"

Simeon Poisson, Mathematician

"In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"Above all things, reverence yourself"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"A thought is an idea in transit"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

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