Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects…

“And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.”

— Mark Haddon

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

— Augustus De Morgan

Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.

— Felix Klein

Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math…

— Keith Devlin

It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about…

— Anonymous

“Engineers can compute but not define, mathematicians can define but not compute, economists can neither define nor compute.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The employment of the word Logic to denote the theory of Argumentation, is derived from the Aristotelian, or, as they are commonly termed, the…

— John Stuart Mill

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I think logicians hate my work, they detest it! And I'm like pornography, I'm sort of an unmentionable subject in the world of logic,…

— Gregory Chaitin

The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.

— H. L. Mencken

We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic; the mathematical…

— Augustus De Morgan

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!

— Tom Robbins

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about…

— George Lois

The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart…

— Blaise Pascal