Cogito Ergo Sum. "I think, René Descartes 1596 to 1650 therefore I am." Born La Haye (now Descartes),Touraine, France
Abu Arrayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-biruni 973-1048 Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors of scholars. "The scholars" he answered, "are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science" Born in Kara-Kalpakskaya, Uzbekistan
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth. On the lever Archimedes of Syracuse 287 BC - 212 BC Born in Syracuse, Sciliy, Italy
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. Charles Babbage 1791-1871 Born in London, England
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which Niels Henrik David Bohr 1885-1962 can be made, in a very narrow Born in Copenhagen, Denmark field
Quinquies exscriptus, maneat tot millibus annis. Girolamo Cardano 1501-1576 I wrote it out five times, may it last the same number of millennia. Born in Pavia, Italy
Lewis Carroll The different branches of Arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Alice in Wonderland. 1832-1898 Born in Daresbury, England
Numbers are the free creation of the human mind Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind 1831-1916 Born in Braunschweig, Germany
Albert Einstein If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. 1879-1955 Born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany
Euclid of Alexandria about 325 BC - about 265 BC Born in Greece? A youth who had begun to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learnt the first proposition, inquired, "What do I get by learning these things?" So Euclid called a slave and said "Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns."
Galileo Galilei In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. 1564 1642 Born in Pisa, Italy
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss Born in Brunswick, Germany 1777 1855 the queen of mathematics.
Omar Khayyam 1048 1122 Born in Nishapur, Persia (now Iran) The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
It is impossible to be a mathematician Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya 1850 1891 Born in Moscow without being a poet in soul.
There are three Leonardo da Vinci classes of people. Those who see; those who see when they are shown; those who do not see. 1452 1519 Born in Vinci (near Empolia), Italy
What we know is not much. What we do not know is Pierre-Simon Laplace immense. (Allegedly his last words.) 1749 1827 Born in Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, France
Benoit Mandelbrot Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce. 1924 Born in Warsaw, Poland
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I Sir Isaac Newton 1643 1727 Born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England stood on the shoulders of giants.
Every man has been made by God in order to acquire Pythagoras of Samos about 569 BC - about 475 BC Born in Samos, Ionia knowledge and contemplate.
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others Blaise Pascal 1623 1662 Born in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France
Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here. Plato 427 BC - 347 BC Born in Athens, Greece
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I Alfréd Rényi 1921 1970 Born in Budapest, Hungary do mathematics to keep happy
I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger 1887 1961 Born in Erdberg, Vienna, Austria with it. [On quantum mechanics ]
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. Alan Mathison Turing 1912 1954 Born in London, England
It is the duty of every true Muslim, man and woman, to Ulugh Beg 1393 1449 Born in Soltaniyeh, Timurid, Iran strive after knowledge.
Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of Erik Christopher Zeeman simplicity 1925 Born in Japan