Mathematician quotes
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"No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language."
"First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people."
"One can always reason with reason."
"[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore."
"Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians."
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"I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting."
"The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them."
"As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all."
"A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician."
"[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians"
"Nobody listens to mathematicians."
"Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians."
"Mathematicians practice absolute freedom."
"Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't."
