“I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.”
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“The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.”
“Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”
Source: Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist
Source: Essays, Comments, and Reviews
“Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”
“Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.”
Source: Sammlung
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.”
Source: Selected papers
“A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.”
“It is not certain that everything is uncertain.”
Source: The Thoughts on religion, and evidences of Christianity, of Pascal; tr., with intr., notes, etc., by G. Pearce
“Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.”
“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.”
Source: The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias
“We never know what we are talking about.”
Source: Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography
“Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.”
“Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.”
Source: Mathematics and the Imagination
“It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.”
“If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.”
Source: The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge
“It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.”
“Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.”
Source: Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving
“Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.”
Source: Number: The Language of Science
“[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.”
“You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.”