Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their…

“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the…

— Alain de Botton

Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou…

— P.D. Ouspensky

“We are finite beings; how can we understand the infinite?”

— Craig Johnson

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.

— Edward Norton Lorenz

I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with…

— M. C. Escher

If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something,…

— G. H. Hardy

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

— Abraham Flexner

“Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why she was…

— Mark Haddon

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately…

— Francis Crick

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such…

— Apostolos Doxiadis

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

— Andrew Wiles

If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight…

— Susan Jacoby