top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Mathematicians are born, not made."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Mathematicians quotes
"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know."
"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."
"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure."
"Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years."
"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."
"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."
"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
Explore more quotes by Henri Poincare
"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics."
"A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature."
"If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment."
"Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence."
"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful."
"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."
bottom of page