Quotes by Mathematician Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Albert Einstein mathematician understanding relation Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. Alfred North Whitehead preference mathematician indifferent First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. Andre Weil mathematician people firsts The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. Andrew Wiles hypothesis mathematician problem Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians. Benoit Mandelbrot convenience mathematician world A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye. Bill Gaede mathematician wave eye A person who can, within a year, solve x Brahmagupta mathematician solve years Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. Carl Friedrich Gauss mathematician shoulders programming Nobody listens to mathematicians. Carl Sagan mathematician My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician. David Chalmers mathematician mathematics interest As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all. Edgar Allan Poe mathematician poet reason Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. Edsger Dijkstra mathematician improvement want The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. Felix Klein mathematician newton theory God is an awesome mathematician and physicist. Francis Collins mathematician physicist [John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians Freeman Dyson mathematician subjects made Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism". G. H. Hardy mathematician ifs believe Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert pianist. Gian-Carlo Rota mathematician concerts fields Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly! Gregory Chaitin mathematician philosopher humanist One can always reason with reason. Henri Bergson mathematician reason Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects. Henri Poincare mathematician study relation 123»