Top 342 Mathematician Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance.
The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view.
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.
I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.
A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.
No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game
If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.
The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.
I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.
I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.
... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use.
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.
Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?
If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.
A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.
A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.
A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.
My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.
My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.
Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit.
Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.
There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.
The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.
I see myself maybe being, like, a movie producer or screenwriter or a novelist or a scientist or mathematician.
Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.
A mathematician is an? individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!
The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.
Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.
The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.
When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed.
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.
It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.
The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.
To me, Turing is as much of a philosopher as he is a mathematician because his ideas deal with what it means to think.
Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.
To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.
The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.
I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you.
