Mathematician Quotes

Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

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.

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

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

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal