Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable…

It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one…

— John Edensor Littlewood

Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous…

— Philippe Petit

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

“Is cooking dangerous?" Most would answer no. But what is a gas range but a short - range flame thrower? Any number of flammable…

— Hiroshi Sakurazaka

It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them…

— Art Buchwald

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

— John Edensor Littlewood

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

— John Edensor Littlewood

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like…

— James Joseph Sylvester

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and…

— Banesh Hoffmann

“317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it…

— Anonymous

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of…

— Albert Einstein

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts…

— Freeman Dyson

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk…

— Ray Bradbury

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

— Rudolf Carnap