I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable…

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

— Samuel Richardson

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

— J. C. Ryle

Bath was hardly known for its rock'n roll. We weren't part of the London scene or the New Romantics or any of that.

— Roland Orzabal

Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.

— William Shenstone

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

— Francis Crick

As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his…

— Stanislaw Ulam

We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being brought to…

— Thomas Reid

The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are…

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

— Plato

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

— Amit Kalantri

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

— John von Neumann

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