Cows Quote by Abraham Flexner

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

— Brian Greene

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him,…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

— Simon Singh

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians…

— Hans Reichenbach

“This quest to take a problem and see what happens in different situations is called generalizing, and it is this force that drives mathematics…

— Matt Parker

“But, as powerful mathematicians like Minkowski and Hilbert found striking harmony between their pure mathematical results and the workings of the physical world, many…

— John D. Barrow

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

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

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

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