Top Mathematician Quotes
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.
James C. Maxwell
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
James Jeans
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
Karl Pearson
Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit.
David Krumholtz
Henry Ellis 
Daniel Bernoulli 
Augustus de Morgan 
Plato 
Edsger Dijkstra 
Andre Weil 
Karl Pearson 
Sofia Kovalevskaya 
Paul Erdos 
James C. Maxwell All Mathematician Quotes
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.
James C. Maxwell 
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From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
James Jeans
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato
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The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
Karl Pearson
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Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit.
David Krumholtz
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
Henry Ellis
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Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Arthur Eddington
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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.
Jacques Derrida
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Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
E. T. Bell
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One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.
Stefan Banach
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Popular Mathematician Authors
PlatoHenri PoincareHenry EllisClifford GeertzJacques DerridaEdsger DijkstraPhilip EmeagwaliArthur EddingtonCarl Friedrich GaussJohn PopleE. T. BellPaul ErdosJames C. Maxwell
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