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What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? — Albert Einstein

A mathematician," he liked to say, "is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. — Mason Currey

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil. — Paul Hoffman

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy

If God exists, what is He but a mathematician? — Matt Haig

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

Am I really a good mathematician? — Norbert Wiener

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. — Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

The Canadian-Australian mathematician Norman Wildberger has posted an essay arguing that real numbers are a joke. — Max Tegmark

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore. — Henry Adams

Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism". — G.H. Hardy

A person who can, within a year, solve x2 - 92y2 = 1 is a mathematician. — Brahmagupta

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. — George Bernard Shaw

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal. — Stanislaw Ulam

Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians. — Benoit Mandelbrot

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. — Havelock Ellis

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him. — Albert Einstein

Nobody listens to mathematicians. — Carl Sagan

The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view. — Roger Bacon

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician. — Thomas Paine

I knew a mathematician who said 'I do not know as much as God. But I know as much as God knew at my age'. — Milton Shulman

A philosopher is a mathematician, who might not be good at solving mathematical problems but knows 'which one' to solve and 'why' to solve it... — Victor Ghoshe

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer. — Philip Emeagwali

Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert pianist. — Gian-Carlo Rota

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth. — George Bernard Shaw

If anything runs deeper than a mathematician's love of variables, it's a scientist's love of constants. — Sam Kean

It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her. — Steven Weinberg

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof, but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by GUESSING. — George Polya

A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science. — Bill Gaede

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician. — Jerry Buss

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does. — Henri Poincare

A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory. — Paul Erdos

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse - not a remarkable mathematician. — Warren Buffett

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. — Timothy Gowers

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician. — David Chalmers

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician. — Bel Powley

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words. — G.H. Hardy

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work. — Simon Newcomb

One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. — Charles Darwin

In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.' — Julio Cesar De Mello E Souza

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems — Paul Erdos

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work. — Leonardo Da Vinci

A mathematician is always asking, "What assumptions are you making? And are they justified? — Jordan Ellenberg

A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye. — Bill Gaede

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years. — Charles Hermite

The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying. — Jean Dieudonne

One can always reason with reason. — Henri Bergson

Oh God, she could see it now - the police constable filling out a report: Mathematician drowned due to miscalculation. — Nina Rowan

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib. — Steven Levy

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. — Plato

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician. — Paul Dirac

An Engineer rounds numbers based on the system behaviour and a Mathematician or a Schoolkid does it based on a pedagogical rule. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts. — Bill Gaede

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. — William James

Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit. — Isabel Paterson

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach

Some mathematician has said that enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in the finding it. — Leo Tolstoy

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation. — Catherynne M Valente

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? — Alexander Tsiaras

It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician. — Karl Weierstrass

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

You don't watch 'A Beautiful Mind' and say, 'This is how every mathematician is.' — Catherine Hardwicke

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations. — Hugh Hopper

Charlie's not your conventional mathematician ... we sexed him up a little bit. — David Krumholtz

To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell

He didn't have enough imagination to be a mathematician, but now he's a poet and he's doing fine. — Robert Eastaway

There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face. — Marjorie Benton Cooke

Is is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. — Henri Poincare

2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid — Thom Yorke

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. — G.H. Hardy

The whole thing that makes a mathematician's life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues. — Donald Knuth

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

Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. — Steven G. Krantz

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

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't. — Jane Goodall

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians. — Rene Thom

A mathematician thinks in numbers, a lawyer in laws, and an idiot thinks in words. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I decided not to take any mathematics courses. — Stephen Sondheim

My dear, you are a mathematician. You're even more, you're a philosopher of mathematics. So do this for me: Tell me the final number. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong. — Hermann Weyl

What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school? — Erich Maria Remarque

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

Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

I'm a mathematician because I'm too slow to be a writer. — Jack Edmonds

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington

Sceptic, mathematician, Christian; doubt, affirmation, submission. — Blaise Pascal

I am a mathematician and I can confidently say that the best figure ever produced is your phone number. — Amit Kalantri

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ... — Leon M. Lederman

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men. — Andre Weil

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary. — Paul Lockhart

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul. — Sofia Kovalevskaya

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. — James Jeans

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane. — J.Williard Gibbs

It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician. — Augustus De Morgan

[I]t is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best. — Mark Haddon

You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers. — John Forbes Nash Jr.

All communication is manipulation," Jedao said. "You're a mathematician. You should know that from information theory. — Yoon Ha Lee