Mathematics quotes by famous mathematicians biography
Quotations
(During a lecture)
This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
I don't believe in mathematics.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
Gott würfelt nicht.
[God does not play dice.]
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?
(About Newton)
Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?
[i.e. Brouwer vs. Hilbert]
Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht.
[God is subtle, but he is not malicious.]
Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater.
The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.
These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward.
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part
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Quote by Henri Poincaré Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss Quote by Archimedes Quote by Andrew Wiles Quote by Felix Klein Quote by G.H. Hardy Quote by Sofia Kovalevskaya Quote by Bertrand Russell Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss Quote by Archimedes Tolstoy: "Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it."
Carl Friedrich Gauss: "I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."
Carl Friedrich Gauss: "Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics."
John von Neumann: "If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."
Plato: "I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."
Archimedes: "Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth."
Rene Descartes: "Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare."
Isaac Newton: "If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants."
Isaac Newton: "Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
Benjamin Franklin: "No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry."
Johannes Kepler: "Where there is matter, there is geometry."
Blaise Pascal: "It is not certain that everything is uncertain."
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Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen.
[We must know. We will know.]Before beginning I should put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.
I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.
He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
Physics is becoming too difficult for t