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#mathematicians

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


Daniel Bernoulli


#earth #mathematicians #physics #true #were

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.


Leonhard Euler


#day #discover #human #human mind #into

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.


Nicolaus Copernicus


#mathematics #written

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


#another #another way #bodies #heavenly #heavenly bodies

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


#beauty #different #elegance #historians #intuition

As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know.


Stephen Cole Kleene


#bring #each #effective #had #i

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.


Felix Klein


#applications #archimedes #equal #equal measure #greatest

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.


Abraham Robinson


#as far as #even #facts #far #i

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.


Carl Friedrich Gauss


#mathematicians #other #shoulders #stand

College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.


Bill Gaede


#establishment #gaede #mathematical-physics #mathematicians #mathematics






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