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Mathematicians are born, not made. -- Henri Poincare
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. -- Henri Poincare
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. -- Brian Greene
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. -- James C. Maxwell
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. -- Leonhard Euler
Mathematicians practice absolute freedom. -- Henry Adams
Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library. -- George Henry Lewes
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. -- Augustus De Morgan
Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income. -- Isaac Asimov
Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me. -- Abraham Flexner
Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes. -- Richard Hamming
Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplestpossible things are imaginary. -- Paul Lockhart
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. -- Morris Kline
Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom. -- Joseph Warren
Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood. -- Edward Norton Lorenz
Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. -- James C. Maxwell
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. -- Ogyu Sorai
Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel! -- Noga Alon
Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws. -- Roger Lewin
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet." -- John Allen Paulos
Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks. -- Isaac Barrow
Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them. -- Jimmy Chin
Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert pianist. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
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
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another. -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity. -- Andrew Wiles
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change. Matter is not important, only form interests them. -- Henri Poincare
The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians have never decided whether they should feel excited or upset by such events. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. Content to them is irrelevant: they are interested in form only. -- Henri Poincare
Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments so brief, that they never lose sight of the evidence that serves as their guide. -- Antoine Lavoisier
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Mathematics is written for mathematicians. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians. -- Thelonious Monk
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible? -- Henri Poincare
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. -- Andrew Wiles
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. -- Andrew Wiles
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. -- Daniel Bernoulli
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. -- Edsger Dijkstra
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions. -- Alonzo Church
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
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
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. -- Clifford Geertz
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future. -- Andrew Wiles
As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know. -- Stephen Cole Kleene
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. -- E. T. Bell
Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool. -- Natalie Dormer
In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians. -- Stephen Hawking
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. -- Felix Klein
Nobody listens to mathematicians. -- Carl Sagan
Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't. -- Jane Goodall
I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians. -- Richard P. Feynman
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy. -- Francis Crick
The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world. -- Bill Gaede
Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus -- Nicolaus Copernicus
Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies. -- Stefan Banach
I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting. -- Richard P. Feynman
The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them. -- Martin Gardner
What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? -- Albert Einstein
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. -- Alfred North Whitehead
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians. -- Rene Thom
Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income? -- Tobias Dantzig
Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do. -- Jennifer Tour Chayes
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. -- Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding. -- Larry Wall
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. -- Bill Gaede
You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy. -- Maxwell Rosenlicht
Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years. -- Charles Hermite
The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight. -- Philip J. Davis
The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ... -- Leon M. Lederman
It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers. -- Timothy Gowers
Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years. -- Charles Hermite
Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way. -- Tom Lehrer
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. -- Andre Weil
Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it. -- Jack Edmonds
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. -- Albert Einstein
The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics. -- Bill Gaede
[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians -- Freeman Dyson
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal. -- Stanislaw Ulam
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. -- Voltaire
There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones. -- Lipman Bers
It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. -- Samuil Shatunovsky
It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless. -- Isadore Singer
All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics. -- Martin Gardner
[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore. -- Henry Adams
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful? -- Martin Gardner
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. -- M. C. Escher
... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics --
All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives. -- Bob Dylan
We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics). -- Keith Devlin
Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male. -- Margaret Wertheim
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. -- Pablo Picasso
Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation. -- Richard P. Feynman
Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them. -- Felix Klein
The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature. -- George Berkeley
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 -- Thom Yorke
It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits. -- Jennifer Tour Chayes
Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all rolled into one, -- Mary Tyler Moore
Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle. -- Honore de Balzac
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus. -- W. W. Rouse Ball
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it. -- Aristotle
What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field. -- Galileo Galilei
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
...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know -- Henri Poincare
[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to PoincarÃ©:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact. -- Gabriel Lippmann
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity. -- James Gleick
In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began. -- Albert Einstein
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign. -- Francis Crick
When I told my son that I had to give a talk about my work to non-mathematicians, he warned me that regular people don't think like mathematicians. -- Richard A. Falk
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together. -- Richard Courant
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. -- Albert Einstein

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