Mathematician Quotations

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

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

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.

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

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

I have created a new universe from nothing.

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians

One can always reason with reason.

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.

Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism".

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Am I really a good mathematician?

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

Mathematicians are born, not made.

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.

It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

Nobody listens to mathematicians.

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.