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

  Paul Erdos

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

  George Woodcock

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• In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

  Georg Cantor

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• A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  G. H. Hardy

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• Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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• The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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• Mathematicians are like managers – they want improvement without change.

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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• It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.
  Augustus de Morgan

  Augustus de Morgan

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• Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

  Eric Temple Bell

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• I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

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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.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

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• Mathematicians stand on each other’s shoulders.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

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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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• One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.

  Stefan Banach

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

  Arthur Eddington

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• The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

  Arthur Eddington

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• Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

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• If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

  Vannevar Bush

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