Mathematician Quotes
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Isaac Newton
English mathematician
I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.
Graham Nelson
Mathematician
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
Janos Bolyai
lawyer
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.
Isaac Barrow
English theologian
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
Polymath
All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the 'Lord God.'
Isaac Newton
English mathematician
An embedded growth obligation is how fast a structure has to grow in order to maintain its honest positions.
Eric Weinstein
American director
One of the problems maths struggles with is that it's invisible. We haven't got explosions on our side.
Hannah Fry
British mathematician
My older brother was the person who got me interested in science in general. He used to tell me what he learned in school. My first memory of mathematics is probably the time that he told me about the problem of adding numbers from 1 to 100.
Maryam Mirzakhani
Iranian mathematician
Human emotion isn't neatly ordered and rational and easily predictable.
Hannah Fry
British mathematician
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes
French philosopher
I don't get easily disappointed.
Maryam Mirzakhani
Iranian mathematician
God made the integers; all else is the work of man.
Leopold Kronecker
German mathematician
Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.
Janos Bolyai
lawyer
Algorithms and data should support the human decision, not replace it.
Hannah Fry
British mathematician
I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
American mathematician
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
Henri Poincare
French mathematician
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
Isaac Newton
English mathematician
The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.
Charles Babbage
Polymath
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes
French philosopher
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