Top Mathematicians Quotes
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
Henri Poincare
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
Andrew Wiles
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
Henri Poincare
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
James C. Maxwell
Daniel Bernoulli 
Charles Hermite 
Carl Friedrich Gauss 
E. T. Bell 
Henri Poincare 
Edsger Dijkstra 
Benoit Mandelbrot 
Andre Weil 
Alonzo Church All Mathematicians Quotes
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
Felix Klein 
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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
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I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.
George Woodcock
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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
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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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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
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