Mathematician Quotes
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What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?
— Albert Einstein
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
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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 knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.
— Albert Einstein
Nobody listens to mathematicians.
— Carl Sagan
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
It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.
— Steven Weinberg
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The whole thing that makes a mathematician's life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.
— Donald Knuth
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
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
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
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
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You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.
— John Forbes Nash Jr.
