God is a mathematician of a very high order and He used…

One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics…

— Paul Dirac

As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only…

— Norman Maclean

Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the…

— Eric Kandel

By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad…

— Herbert A. Simon

“To Plato, God was a mathematician. To Kepler, too, and to Biehl and Fredhoj. I do not believe it was a coincidence that their…

— Peter Høeg

“As a Scot and a Presbyterian, my father believed that man by nature was a mess and had fallen from an original state of…

— Norman Maclean

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this…

— Paul Dirac

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

— Paul Dirac

As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has…

— Paul Dirac

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

If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics…

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

“I am a mathematician and I can confidently say that the best figure ever produced is your phone number.”

— Amit Kalantri

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

— Arthur Eddington

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

“π is a mathematician’s dessert”

— Neve Maslakovic