A Mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos
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.
- Karl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematics is a language.
- Josiah Willard Gibbs
God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice
where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes
in mathematics.
E. Kasner and J. Newman
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should
be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been
imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language
of mathematics.
- Johannes Kepler
In my opinion, a mathematician, in so far as he is a
mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- an
opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many
philosophers.
- Henri Lebesgue
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may
not some day be applied to the phenomena of the real world.
- Nikolai Lobatchevsky
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of
contradiction a sign of truth.
- Blaise Pascal
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of
reasoning.
- Plato
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists
since we cannot prove it.
- Andre Weil
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's
blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or
erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has
often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in
that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's
worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a
single successful approach to a problem, among many which have
been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's
reputation.
- Norbert Wiener