Quotations By Mathematicians


Les faits ne parlent pas (Facts do not speak) -- Poincare

Mathematicians are born, not made --Poincare

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics --Siméon Poisson

Young Men should prove theorems, old men should write books --Hardy

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know howI am to arrive at them -- Gauss

God does arithmetic -- Gauss

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal and the critical -- David Hilbert

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly thespirit of man -- David Hilbert

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper --David Hilbert