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Tag Name "Mathematician" (327)

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The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows he is eager for more knowledge.
W. W. Sawyer
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.
Saint Augustine
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Isolated, so-called pretty theorems have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new pretty flower has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.
Hermann Hankel
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Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.
Roger Lewin
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
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No mathematician of equal stature has risen from our generation... Hilbert was singularly free from national and racial prejudices in all public questions, be they political, social or spiritual, he stood forever on the side of freedom.
Hermann Weyl
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When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.
Mark Haddon
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I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.
Rene Thom
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
E. O. Wilson
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In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.
Henri Lebesgue
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Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law of nature. Give us a billion dollars.' And if it doesn't change the world, then they say, 'There's an even deeper thing. Give us another billion dollars.'
Gian-Carlo Rota
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We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial.
Richard P. Feynman
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You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.
Hermann Hesse
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Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?
Tobias Dantzig
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.
G. H. Hardy
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I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made possible by each one having a direct route to truth, the consciousness of each being in a position to perceive mathematical truths directly, through the process of 'seeing'.
Roger Penrose
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene
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But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.
Marston Morse
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Mathematicians grow very old it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very pleasant things to do.
Dirk Jan Struik
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Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds the machines became a little bit better.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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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.
Simon Newcomb
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