#thematic

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 Dijkstra

#am #ancestors #cultural #derive #feeling

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#chemistry #completely #complex #difficulty #equations

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#become #i #mathematician #physicist #wanted

There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time. ↗

— Andy Wachowski

#buddhism #fascinated #interesting #long #long time

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. ↗

— Izaak Walton

#fully #learned #like #mathematics #may

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it. ↗

— Andre Weil

#consistent #devil #exists #god #mathematics

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men. ↗

— Andre Weil

#men #morality

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#generates #good #itself #mathematical #mathematics

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#just #love #mathematicians #problems #pure

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#childhood #dates #days #early #early childhood