#mathematician

College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line. ↗

— Bill Gaede

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Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

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All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians. ↗

— Thelonious Monk

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A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. ↗

— Stefan Banach

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Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit. ↗

— David Krumholtz

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The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius. ↗

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

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Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

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It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ↗

— Paul Erdos

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