501 quotes by mathematicians for you to enjoy

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics. Benoit Mandelbrot

Physics Think Topic Color Branch Pitch Each

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills. Benoit Mandelbrot

News Memory Somewhere Big Everybody Everybody Else Else Finite Computer Longer Piece Buffer Message Although Always Sends Expensive Size Fills

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact. Benoit Mandelbrot

Fate Has-Been Only Fact Understood Been After Fully

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time. Benoit Mandelbrot

Time Pleasure My Time Occasions Years Realize Many Even Now Near

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

Most economists, when modeling market behavior, tend to sweep major fluctuations under the rug and assume they are anomalies. What I have found is that major rises and falls in prices are actually inevitable. Benoit Mandelbrot

Behavior Inevitable Assume Rug Market Rises Tend Prices Major Economists Most Falls Modeling Sweep Found Actually

Both parents worshiped individual achievement, but because of the Depression and the war, they never achieved what they wanted and deserved. So their ambition and high expectations were transferred to me. Benoit Mandelbrot

Depression War Me Achievement Parents Ambition High High Expectations Both Individual Never Because Were Expectations Achieved Wanted Transferred Deserved

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

Other Mathematicians Shoulders Stand Each

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. Carl Friedrich Gauss

Time Long Long Time Results Had Know How Am Arrive Them

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. Carl Friedrich Gauss

Reality Space Humility Our Minds We Cannot Must Purely Admit Properties Outside Cannot While Product Prescribe Number

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. Carl Friedrich Gauss

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. Charles Babbage

Time Science Others Promotion Study Powerful Most Attraction Exists Than Any Duties Which Acquaintance Less Therefore

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. Charles Babbage

Time Machinery Advantage Economy Human Next

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. Charles Babbage

Science Better Criticism Would Would-Be Perhaps Should Avowed

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs. Charles Babbage

Matter Men Animals Military Considerable Carry Proportion Weights Between Velocity Importance Particularly Affairs Move Which

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform. Charles Babbage

Made Those Drawn Pocket Perform Merits Exercising Always Salary Discuss Officer Officers Duties Modes Paid Whose Right Appointment

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. Charles Babbage

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction. Charles Babbage

Good Knowledge Genius Valuable Country Allow Never Drudgery Like Employed Instruction Policy Surely Than Far Elementary

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

Busy Enough Years Mathematicians Left Them Keep

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

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