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Mathematician Inspirational Quotes (11980)

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The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.
Ronald Fisher
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The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give.
Thomas Hobbes
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Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population.
John Maynard Smith
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Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
Thomas Hobbes
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.
Bertrand Russell
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Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
Andre Weil
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Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously . . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . .
Andre Weil
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Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
Fred Hoyle
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Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.
Stephen Hawking
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Women. They are a complete mystery.
Stephen Hawking
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But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.
Lewis Carroll
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The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.
Leonardo da Vinci
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There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
Anaximander
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Immortal and indestructible, surrounds all and directs all.
Anaximander
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Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.
Anaxagoras
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Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be for nothing comes into being or is destroyed but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.
Anaxagoras
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The sun provides the moon with its brightness.
Anaxagoras
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Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.
Anaxagoras
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The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.
Anaxagoras
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It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
Anaxagoras
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The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating
Anaxagoras
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In everything, there is a share of everything
Anaxagoras
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The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.
Anaxagoras
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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
Vernor Vinge
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