Marcus du Sautoy Quotes

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

Math research is more like a marathon.

I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.

Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles they're like little children.

You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

I love that once you know the basic rules of maths, you can do whatever you want with it.

I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they just sort of solved them.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.

Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.