#mathematicians

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. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#bring #each #effective #had #i

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. ↗

— Felix Klein

#applications #archimedes #equal #equal measure #greatest

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

#as far as #even #facts #far #i

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#mathematicians #other #shoulders #stand

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

#christian #education #god #mathematicians #mathematics

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. ↗

— George Woodcock

#i #like #mathematicians #me #move

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. ↗

— Graham Greene

#been #being #human #human being #human relations

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#certain #equally #every #exclusive #fault

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians. ↗

— Thelonious Monk

#musicians #subconsciously

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible? ↗

— Henri Poincare

#infallible #mathematicians #need #themselves