Quotations

Quotations

We have included quotations from many of the mathematicians in our archive. You can access them from the individual biographies. You can search the files of quotations using the form below.
Here is a list of those mathematicians who have quotations. The number in brackets is the number of quotations.
A
Abel (6)
Abraham (1)
Adams_Frank (2)
Ahmes (1)
 Aiken (1)
al-Biruni (3)
al-Khwarizmi (1)
Albertus (1)
 Ampere (1)
Anaxagoras (1)
Apollonius (1)
Arago (3)
 Arbuthnot (1)
Archimedes (7)
Aristotle (19)
Arnauld (1)
B
Babbage (6)
Bacon (6)
Baker (1)
Banach (2)
Barlow (1)
Barrow (4)
Bell (13)
Bergman (3)
Berkeley (4)
 Bernoulli_Daniel (2)
Bernoulli_Jacob (4)
Bernoulli_Johann (4)
Bers (1)
Besicovitch (1)
Bhaskara (1)
Bocher (2)
Bochner (2)
Boethius (1)
 Bohr_Niels (3)
Boltzmann (5)
Bolyai (2)
Bolyai_Farkas (1)
Boole (4)
Borel (1)
Born (3)
Boscovich (2)
Bowditch (1)
 Boyle (1)
Brahe (1)
Brahmagupta (1)
Broglie (1)
Bronowski (1)
Brouwer (1)
Buffon (1)
C
Caccioppoli (2)
Cajori (1)
Cantor (2)
Cardan (2)
 Carlyle (3)
Carnot (1)
Cauchy (1)
Cayley (2)
 Chebyshev (1)
Chrystal (1)
Clausius (1)
Clifford (2)
 Cohen (1)
Condorcet (1)
Coolidge (2)
Copernicus (2)
D
d'Alembert (5)
Dantzig (3)
Davenport (1)
De_Morgan (6)
De_Prony (2)
 Dedekind (1)
Dee (4)
Dehn (1)
Delambre (1)
Democritus (4)
 Descartes (14)
Dickson (1)
Dieudonne (4)
Digges (1)
Diophantus (1)
 Dirac (8)
Dodgson (7)
Doob (1)
Duhem (1)
Durer (3)
E
Eddington (16)
Edge (1)
 Einstein (42)
Erdos (8)
 Escher (2)
Euclid (3)
 Eudoxus (1)
Euler (5)
F
Fejer (1)
Feller (2)
Fermat (3)
 Feynman (5)
Fibonacci (1)
Fisher (2)
 Fontenelle (5)
Forsyth (2)
Fourier (2)
 Frege (1)
Fresnel (1)
Fuller (2)
G
Galileo (12)
Galois (1)
Galton (3)
 Gauss (22)
Germain (1)
Gibbs (2)
 Glaisher (2)
Godel (2)
Gordan (1)
H
Hadamard (3)
Hall_Marshall (1)
Halley (1)
Halmos (17)
Hamilton (4)
Hamming (2)
 Hankel (1)
Hardy (12)
Harish-Chandra (1)
Hawking (3)
Heaviside (5)
Heisenberg (2)
 Helmholtz (1)
Hermite (4)
Herstein (1)
Hilbert (17)
Hirst (1)
Hobbes (7)
 Hooke (2)
Hubble (2)
Hurwitz (1)
IJ
Jacobi (8)
 Jeans (4)
 Jevons (1)
 Jordan (1)
K
Kac (3)
Kaplansky (1)
Karman (1)
 Kepler (16)
Keynes (5)
Khayyam (8)
 Klein (6)
Kolmogorov (1)
Kovalevskaya (1)
 Kronecker (2)
Kummer (1)
L
Lacroix (1)
Lagrange (11)
Lakatos (1)
Lambert (2)
Lanczos (2)
 Landau (2)
Laplace (10)
Lasker (1)
Lebesgue (1)
Lefschetz (1)
 Legendre (1)
Leibniz (11)
Leonardo (10)
Levi (1)
Libri (1)
 Littlewood (24)
Lobachevsky (2)
Lovelace (1)
M
Maclaurin (3)
Mandelbrot (1)
Maxwell (5)
 Minkowski (2)
Mittag-Leffler (1)
Montucla (1)
 Moore_Eliakim (2)
Moore_Robert (1)
Mordell (6)
 Morse (1)
N
Napier (3)
Neugebauer (1)
 Neumann_Franz (1)
Newcomb (1)
 Newton (13)
Nicomachus (2)
O
Ockham (1)
 Osgood (2)
PQ
Pacioli (1)
Pappus (1)
Pascal (43)
Pauli (3)
Peano (1)
 Pearson (3)
Peirce_Benjamin (2)
Peirce_Charles (6)
Planck (2)
Plato (15)
 Poincare (22)
Poinsot (1)
Poisson (1)
Polya (27)
Proclus (4)
 Ptolemy (1)
Pythagoras (2)
Quetelet (2)
Quine (1)
R
Ramsey (1)
Rayleigh (2)
Recorde (2)
 Regiomontanus (1)
Reichenbach (2)
Renyi (1)
 Rheticus (1)
Richardson (2)
Riemann (2)
 Roth (1)
Rudio (1)
Russell (25)
S
Schrodinger (1)
Seki (1)
Servois (1)
 Smith (3)
Somerville (1)
Spottiswoode (1)
 Stevin (1)
Stifel (1)
Stone (1)
 Sylvester (10)
Synge (1)
T
Tait (1)
Tartaglia (1)
Thales (2)
 Thom (4)
Thompson_D'Arcy (3)
Thomson (6)
 Thurston (1)
Tietze (1)
Titchmarsh (5)
 Todhunter (1)
Turing (3)
Turnbull (2)
UV
Ulam (5)
Ulugh_Beg (1)
 Van_Vleck (1)
Vandiver (1)
 Viete (3)
Von_Neumann (4)
W
Wallis (1)
Weierstrass (1)
Weil (4)
 Weyl (11)
Whitehead (38)
Whitehead_Henry (1)
 Wiener_Norbert (9)
Wigner (4)
Wiles (1)
 Wittgenstein (20)
Woodward (1)
Wren (1)
XYZ
Young (1)
 Zeeman (1)
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