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347 Mathematician Quotes

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

Worth Intelligent Majority People
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Beauty Test Permanent World
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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

Best Professor Oxford
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

Interested Mathematics Creative art
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I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

Great deal Importance Papers
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

Young men Prove theorems Old men
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Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

Real mathematics Justified
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Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

Most people Frightened Ready
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Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.

Mathematics Contemplative Creative subject
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There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.

Scorn Profound Justified Men
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Mathematician Painter Poet Permanent
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For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

Serious purpose Intelligence Minor gift
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The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.

Public Convinced Mathematics
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If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

Intellectual curiosity Professional pride Ambition
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The creative life is the only one for a serious man.

Creative life Serious man
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A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

Science Useful Accentuate Inequalities
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Good work is not done by 'humble' men

Good work Done Humble men
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... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts.

Philosophy Subject Hopelessly obscure
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No one should ever be bored. … One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can’t be bored.
No one Bored Disgusted Horrified
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My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

My beautiful Proof Ruins
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The essence of mathematics is in its freedom.

Essence Mathematics Freedom
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Great innovation only happens when people aren't afraid to do things differently.

Great innovation Happens Afraid Differently
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I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

Realize Undertaking Opposition
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Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.

Blindly follow Guidance Instructions
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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Deceive Deceived Even From Time To Time
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Absolutely Except Nothing Our
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

After All Things As Far As Doubt
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Afterwards Became Each Other
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Books Centuries Conversation Finest Good
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Difficulty Divide Each Feasible
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Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

Almost Centuries Like Other
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I think; therefore I am.

Am I Am I Think Therefore Think
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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare
Like Men Numbers Perfect
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

Also Discovery Explained Hope
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What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.

Man Happy Healthy Resourceful mind
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The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Most difficult thing In life Know yourself
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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

More active Travels over Universe Stronger
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Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.
Time Wisest All things To light
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Necessity is the strongest of things, for it rules everything.

Necessity Strongest Rules everything
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The past is certain, the future obscure.

The past Certain Future obscure
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God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.

God Most ancient No birth
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Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Hope Good Common All men
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Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.

Intellect Swiftest All things Runs through
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Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Avoid doing Blame others Doing
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One who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.

Healthy Body Resourceful Soul
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A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

Multitude Words No proof Prudent mind
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Hope is the most universal of human possessions.

Hope Most universal Human possessions
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If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Excessive wealth Immoderate poverty
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Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.

Many words Wise man Talk Needed
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We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

We live Summit Solid earth Bottom
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