Quotes by Mathematicians

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. Alan Turing
Needs Distance Plenty See Only Done Short
Eureka! - I have found it! Archimedes
Eureka Found
Information is the resolution of uncertainty. Claude Shannon
Uncertainty Information Resolution
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. David Hilbert
Mathematics Game Simple Paper Marks Rules According Meaningless Certain Played
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you. Isaac Newton
Nature You Man Age Better Rest Difficult Too Others One-Man Come Leave Task Any After Tis Explain Little Much Certainty Even
The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God. Isaac Newton
God Spiritual Word Every True Supreme Makes Lord Dominion Being Which Imaginary
I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy. Max Born
Physics Philosophy Am Convinced Theoretical Now Actually
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. Rene Descartes
Needs Sense Nothing Distributed More No-One He Fairly Than Common Common Sense Thinks
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. Rene Descartes
Dreams Am Same Accustomed Same Things Awake Things Lunatics Imagine Sleep
Talent is important, but how one develops and nurtures it is even more so. Terence Tao
Important More Develops Talent How Even
The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer. Alan Turing
Saying Digital Machines Out Carry Could Computer Computers Idea Operations Intended Any Done May Behind Human Which Explained
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. Alfred North Whitehead
You Dog Pet Same Thing Fond Cat He Because Does Jumps Same Warmer Your Lap Thing
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines. Claude Shannon
Time Will Machines Visualize Robots Dogs Rooting Humans
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? David Hilbert
First Slept Thousand Would Would-Be Thousand Years Having Hypothesis Proven Were Been Years Question After Awaken
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.
Mathematics Great Madness Schizophrenia Doubt Relation Symptoms Say Characteristics Dare Would No Doubt Direct Delirium Between Mathematicians Maniacal Suffer
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better. John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Good You Suffering People Madness Better Think I Think Mental Something Mental Illness Idea Always Selling Escape Maybe Want Illness Things Imagine
There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method. Max Born
Believe Incredible Types Those Must Objectionable Discarded Scientific Scientific Method Method Replaced Who Belief Believers Two
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. Pythagoras
Anger Repentance Folly Begins Ends
Reason is immortal, all else mortal. Pythagoras
Else Immortal Mortal Reason
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. Rene Descartes
Hope Me Judge Will Others Pleasure Those Kindly Posterity Only Also Judge Me Leave Discovery Intentionally Which Explained Things
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. Rene Descartes
Amazing Mind Consider Indeed Weak Prone How Am Amazed Error
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. Rene Descartes
Power Ought Our Follow True Most Probable
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves. Ada Lovelace
Analytical Say Aptly Most Loom Leaves May Just Patterns Engine Flowers
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. Alfred North Whitehead
Me Selfish Looking Would Would-Be Boss Billionaire
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Time You Writing Words Few Satisfied Possible Slowly More Write Never Takes Know Until Because Said Am Chiefly Than Length Far Much
When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Darkness Exhausted Go Subject Order Again Turn Then Away
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