“ A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ”
- Paul Erdos- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Physicists know what's important, but they don't know what is true. Mathematicians know what's true, but they don't know what is important. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 352
“ Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. ”
- Ecclesiastes- Copy
- 141
“ It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. ”
- Augustus de Morgan- Copy
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“ In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy — An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason. ”
- Stephen Hawking- Copy
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“ The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians. ”
- Sylvia Porter- Copy
- 3.1K
“ We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. ”
- Edward M. Forster- Copy
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“ In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy — An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ”
- Ronald Fisher- Copy
- 136
“ Mathematicians are like Frenchman: whatever you say to them they translate Into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Physicists know what's important, but they don't know what is true. Mathematicians know what's true, but they don't know what is important. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment. ”
- Ernest Rutherford- Copy
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“ What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. ”
- G. H. Hardy- Copy
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“ A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way. ”
- Benoit Mandelbrot- Copy
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“ Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 1.3K
“ 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- Copy
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“ The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. ”
- James Joseph Sylvester- Copy
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“ Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not. To every sum in mathematics there is already a correct answer, whether the mathematician has found it or not. ”
- Grenville Kleiser- Copy
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