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Der Freakonomics Blog der New York Times hatte am Donnerstag einen Artikel zur Mathematik mit der Aufforderung an die Leser, Zitate einzuschicken.

Einige, die ich noch nicht kannte:

“A mathematician is a blind man searching a dark room for a black cat which isn’t there.” Charles Darwin

“If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.” Phil Pastoret

“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.” John von Neumann

“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.” Robert Heinlein

“Math is built with facts as a house is built with bricks, but a collection of facts cannot be called mathematics anymore than a pile of bricks can be called a house.” Henri Poincare

“There are 10¹¹ stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. “ Richard Feynman

“Some people are mathematicians because they don’t have the social skills to be a physicist.” Unknown

“Given that sooner or later we’re all just going to die, what’s the point of learning about integers?” Calvin & Hobbes

“A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. “ Stefan Banach

“On two occasions I have been asked,
‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question” Charles Babbage

“The epitome of conceit is doing math with a pen. “ Unknown