#mathematician

Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#enough #feel #had #largely #last

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. ↗

— Plato

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Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible? ↗

— Henri Poincare

#infallible #mathematicians #need #themselves

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#know #machines #mathematician #more #need

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. ↗

— James Jeans

#architect #begins #creation #evidence #great

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#assuming #assumptions #axiom #choice #contrary

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. ↗

— Brian Greene

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It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. ↗

— Daniel Bernoulli

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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#foreign #foreign language #gets #language #mathematician

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable. ↗

— Abraham Robinson

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