Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory…

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

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

— George Woodcock

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

— Andrew Wiles

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

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

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

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

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

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“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

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

— Abraham Flexner

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

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

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

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

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.

— Edward Norton Lorenz