I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of…

People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a…

— Edward Frenkel

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

We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social problems, informing…

— Marcus du Sautoy

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

“It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians.”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

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

Physicists and mathematicians regularly invade other fields but other fields do not invade theirs so we can see which fields are hardest for very…

— Dominic Cummings

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

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

— George Woodcock

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