Mathematicians+and+Quotes

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." Rene Descartes

= " All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians." = = Thelonious Monk = = "Mathematicians are born, not made." = = Henri Poincare = = "Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge." = = Andrew Wiles = = "The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure." = = Felix Klein = = = = "The primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it." = Aristotle

"All things are numbers" Pythagoras, who also thought we shouldn't eat beans.

"Getting dead people to our work for us" paraphrased, I'll watch again to get it spot on. Links to Rene Descartes above.
Dr. Robert Lang - Origami and mathematics - TED talks

Who are your favourite mathematicians? Have you come across any famous quotations of mathematicians? Don't forget you are mathematicians too. Add them to the wiki