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A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good…

— Steven G. Krantz

The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why some people are better at it than others.

— Adrian Mathesis

“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being…

— Joseph Bertrand

“Somewhere out there is a theory that would explain my empirical observations, and this theory has yet to be discovered. Mathematics thrives on such…

— Henri Darmon

Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being…

— Ernest Nagel

“It followed that every act, whether the finding of a new proof for a complex mathematical problem or a twist of vision that turned…

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

— Archimedes

“I spoke of the 'real' mathematics of Fermat and other great mathematicians, the mathematics which has permanent aesthetic value, as for example the best…

— G.H. Hardy

“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.”

— Karl Weierstrass

“Every problem in quantum physics had to be first “solved” using classical physics, and then be reworked by the judicious insertion of quantum numbers…

— John Gribbin

“There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning; and when they cannot it's…

— John Arbuthnot

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

— Plato