Quotes Tagged With :mathematicians

A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also....

People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring....

A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when....

Two writings of al-Hassār have survived. The first, entitled Kitāb al-bayān wa t-tadhkār [Book of....

It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there....

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists....

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians....

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having....

Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly—yet counted....

College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals....