Mathematicians Quotes

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

— Abraham Flexner

Mathematicians are fairly cheap.

— Terence Tao

Nobody listens to mathematicians.

— Carl Sagan

Mathematicians are born, not made.

— Henri Poincare

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

— Henri Poincare

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

— Simon Singh

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

— Francis Crick

I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

— Richard P. Feynman

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

— Paul Lockhart

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

— Anonymous

“Mathematicians,excell,us, Take,a,census, Of,the,canaries,in,the,sun.”

— Jose Garcia Villa

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

— Morris Kline

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

— Isaac Asimov

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

— Richard Hamming

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?

— Tobias Dantzig

Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise…

— Blaise Pascal

The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community…

— William Thurston

Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and…

— Dirk Jan Struik

Most students who take math classes aren't going to be mathematicians. They're going to be engineers, statisticians - in many ways, that's…

— Terence Tao

“Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects, philosophers in concepts, geometers in images, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators, writers in impressions,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an…

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

“All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platonic forms. An ice palace. But they…

— Sylvain Cappell

“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading…

— Eric Temple Bell

I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether…

— John Edensor Littlewood

A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its…

— David Mumford

Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make…

— James Clerk Maxwell

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

— Thomas Reid

Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and…

— M. C. Escher

“Though blessed with the enviable properties of a mink coat—graceful, unreasonable, and impractical no matter what she was draped over—she was nevertheless…

— Marisha Pessl

“I have been able to solve a few problems of mathematical physics on which the greatest mathematicians since Euler have struggled in…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

“Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why…

— Mark Haddon

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning…

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to…

— G. H. Hardy