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
Abraham Robinson 
Edsger Dijkstra 
James C. Maxwell 
George Woodcock 
Leonhard Euler 
Andre Weil 
Henri Poincare 
Alonzo Church 
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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 
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It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
Daniel Bernoulli
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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
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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
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Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.
Charles Hermite
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Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
Edsger Dijkstra
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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
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Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
Andrew Wiles
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