• If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.9 · 57 votes · 93 reads

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• In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.3 · 13 votes · 172 reads

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• Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 43 votes · 126 reads

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• It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.8 · 48 votes · 31 reads

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• 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.

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  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  MathematicianGerman1777 · 18th century

  3.5 · 43 votes · 141 reads

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

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  Daniel Bernoulli

  MathematicianDutch1700 · 17th century

  4.1 · 13 votes · 110 reads

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• Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

  

  Alan Turing

  MathematicianEnglish1912 · 20th century

  4.7 · 53 votes · 140 reads

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• Mathematicians are born, not made.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.5 · 21 votes · 16 reads

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• Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.1 · 24 votes · 93 reads

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• Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.

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  Leonhard Euler

  MathematicianSwiss1707 · 18th century

  3.9 · 14 votes · 125 reads

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• Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

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  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  MathematicianGerman1777 · 18th century

  3.1 · 26 votes · 190 reads

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• Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.1 · 19 votes · 136 reads

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• Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.8 · 5 votes · 160 reads

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• One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.9 · 19 votes · 60 reads

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• One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.9 · 55 votes · 101 reads

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• Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  5.0 · 7 votes · 174 reads

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• Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.8 · 7 votes · 12 reads

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• Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

  

  Alan Turing

  MathematicianEnglish1912 · 20th century

  3.1 · 45 votes · 54 reads

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• The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

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  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  MathematicianGerman1777 · 18th century

  3.9 · 5 votes · 61 reads

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• The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

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  Archimedes

  MathematicianGreek-287 · 3rd century BC

  3.3 · 28 votes · 134 reads

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• The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.0 · 20 votes · 17 reads

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• There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

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  Daniel Bernoulli

  MathematicianDutch1700 · 17th century

  4.7 · 55 votes · 37 reads

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• To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.3 · 23 votes · 139 reads

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• To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.

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  Leonhard Euler

  MathematicianSwiss1707 · 18th century

  3.5 · 7 votes · 45 reads

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• We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

  

  Alan Turing

  MathematicianEnglish1912 · 20th century

  4.8 · 7 votes · 128 reads

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