36 Mathematicians Quotes for You to Enjoy

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians. Stephen Hawking

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians. Thelonious Monk

Musicians Subconsciously Mathematicians

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia. John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. E. T. Bell

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Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do. Frank Drake

Nature Never Prime Mathematicians Uses Numbers

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable. Abraham Robinson

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First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. Andre Weil

People First Second-Rate Rate First-Rate Mathematicians Choose Second Third

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. Andrew Wiles

Love Try Problems Challenge Pure Mathematicians Just

When I first began studying prices, it wasn't a topic that mathematicians were working on. Purely by accident, I saw a set of data on price changes presented in a lecture and realized they behaved similarly to the geometric models I was already studying. Benoit Mandelbrot

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. Carl Friedrich Gauss

Other Mathematicians Shoulders Stand Each

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years. Charles Hermite

Busy Enough Years Mathematicians Left Them Keep

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. Clifford Geertz

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It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. Daniel Bernoulli

Physics Better Earth Would Would-Be True Were Mathematicians

Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end. Daniel Tammet

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Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. Edsger Dijkstra

Change Like Without Mathematicians Improvement Managers Want

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. Edsger Dijkstra

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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. Felix Klein

Equal Greatest Always Mathematicians Newton Measure Theory United Applications

I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning. Frank McCourt

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Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all have their own understanding of how the brain functions and is structured. How do you get them all around the same table? Henry Markram

Mathematicians are always playing tricks on each other. They're always pulling jokes on each other. Jeremy Irons

Jokes Other Tricks Always Mathematicians Each Playing Pulling

We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social problems, informing political debate and for the economy. Marcus du Sautoy

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