Mathematicians Quotes

You need forensic mathematicians, artists and psychologists as well as scientists. We're learning a little bit about all of it. - Jeff Abraham

We have to have the best education system in the world. We need mathematicians, engineers and scientists to develop the products and processes of the future, and frankly, we're not doing that. - John Castellani

We have a crisis right now. Business people right now are saying we have a skill shortage and not enough scientists and mathematicians. If you don't send boys to college, you're never going to get more scientists. - William Draves

Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof. - Nicolaus Copernicus

There would be the need to try and kill as many as possible of the scientists, technicians, engineers, mathematicians who are involved in the process because, in some ways, one sets back a program much more by killing the personnel. - Paul Rogers

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. - Clifford Geertz

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

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. - Voltaire

The next chapter is likely to provoke many mathematicians. This can't be helped. Mathematics is not what they think it is. - David Deutsch