Polish Mathematician Quotes

Nicolaus Copernicus

Stanislaw Ulam

Mark Kac

And as far as hypotheses go, let no one expect anything in the way of certainty from astronomy, since astronomy can offer us nothing certain, lest, if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away from this discipline a bigger fool than when he came to it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

In recent years we have become much more preoccupied with streamlining and organizing our subject than with maintaining its overall vitality. If we are not careful, a great adventure of the mind will become yet another profession.

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.

Good mathematicians see analogies between theorems or theories, the very best ones see analogies between analogies.