Mathematician Quotes

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

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

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

A person who can, within a year, solve x2 - 92y2 = 1 is a mathematician.

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

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

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

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

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.

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

Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.

One can always reason with reason.

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

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

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

Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."

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

Am I really a good mathematician?

I'm a mathematician because I'm too slow to be a writer.

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

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

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

The library is the mathematician's laboratory.