Quotes by Mathematicians

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. Isaac Newton
History Bible Marks More Sure Authenticity Any Profane
Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths. Isaac Newton
Faith Obedience Law King Men Free Those Ourselves Oaths Would Allegiance More Only Absolute Free Men Him Due Were Than Whereas Fidelity Swear Land Requires Notwithstanding Sworn Slaves
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded. Isaac Newton
Weight Regarded Experiments Numbers
I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them. Johann Heinrich Lambert
Light Others Distant Way We Cannot System See Entire Undecided Countless Faint Perhaps Am Infinitely Form Cannot Whether Which Galaxies Them Milky Way
You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers. John Forbes Nash, Jr.
You Feel Mathematician Numbers
Men don't pay attention to small things. Katherine Johnson
Small Things Men Pay Pay Attention Small Attention Things
For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear. Leonhard Euler
Work Wise Nothing Universe Rule Minimum Fabric Some Perfect Takes Since Most Does Maximum Place Which Appear Creator
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. Max Born
Success God World Made Predict Our Solve Imperfect Perfect He Conceded Fair Parts Equations Least Intellect Dice Order Little Much Use Mechanism Differential Need
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. Rene Descartes
Alone Knowledge Understanding Our Must Intuition Rely Operations Said Which Acquisition Deduction Two
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. Richard Hamming
Insight Purpose Computing Numbers
Say what you know, do what you must, come what may. Sofia Kovalevskaya
You Say Must Come Know May
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery. William Kingdon Clifford
Great Become Lose Believe Society Enough Back Danger Inquiring Though Must Habit Wrong Merely Wrong Things Testing Sink Them Then Should Things Credulous Savagery
I shall, in due time, be a Poet. Ada Lovelace
Time Poet Shall Due
I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams. Alan Turing
Dreams Enthusiasm Way Though Dream Rather Had Clearly Accept Am Being Either Much Awake
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. Alfred North Whitehead
Live Think Detail Generalities
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. Alfred North Whitehead
Courage Heroes Resolve Virtue Brutal Firm True True Courage Force Vulgar Reason
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. Alfred North Whitehead
Philosophical Consists Characterization General Safest Tradition European Series Plato
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. Alfred North Whitehead
Technology Important Thinking Civilization Advances Perform Operations Without Which Them Extending Number
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it. Andre Weil
God Mathematics Devil Consistent We Cannot Since Prove Exists Cannot
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. Andrew Wiles
Today Valid Back Date Still Greeks
I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years. Andrew Wiles
Time Morning Problem Thinking About Obsessed Woke Years Up Eight Night Sleep
For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone. Benoit Mandelbrot
Life My Life Investigate Were Where Wanted Anyone Place Interest Much Things
There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation. Charles Hermite
Reality World Mind Creation Other Our Independent Ourselves Physical Totality Entire Entire World Only Both Divine Like Mistaken Access Am Mathematical Exists Truths Just Which
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
Fitness Art Mathematics Creative Simplicity Feeling Past Sense Guided Indefinable Rather Only Inspired Generality Prospect Ultimate Mathematicians Than Any In The Past Usefulness Now Things Symmetry
But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony. Edward Witten
Work Music Example Beauty Harmony For Example Learned Equations Real Just Experienced Anyone Einstein Century Inner
Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. Felix Klein
Mathematics Confused Become Enough Everyone Possible Through Exceptions Studied He Countless Until Knows Curve Number
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