A Quote by Gottlob Frege

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

Gottlob Frege

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Gottlob Frege
German - Mathematician
November 8, 1848 - July 26, 1925

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

George Eliot

To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy.

Frederick the Great

Tips-wise, I'd say drink as much water as possible, and I always think if you can do half an hour of exercise every day or, at least, get your heart rate up for half an hour every day, even if it's a power walk, it's good.

Tamzin Outhwaite

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

A. P. Martinich

That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician.

Albert Einstein

To me, Turing is as much of a philosopher as he is a mathematician because his ideas deal with what it means to think.

Morten Tyldum

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!

Gregory Chaitin

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Henri Poincare

Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.

Maimonides

I think you can fan the flames, but I think in the same way that a mathematician is a mathematician - He's not taught to be a mathematician. He either has a feeling for equations and an understanding and delight in it, not only in the purity of it, but in its beauty as well.

John Hurt

A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good mathematician eventually does so - and proves a theorem.

Steven G. Krantz

Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?