One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that…

“π is a mathematician’s dessert”

— Neve Maslakovic

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

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

— Arthur Eddington

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

— John von Neumann

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

— Amit Kalantri

God is the original Mathematician

— Frenchqueen

Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are…

— Temple Grandin

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

— George Eliot

“Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps, posterity will…

— Pierre De Fermat

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

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

Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

— Steven G. Krantz

In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In…

— Emanuel Lasker

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a…

— Storm Jameson