Failure Quote by Alfred Korzybski

“I am a mathematician, sir. I never permit myself to think.”

— John Dickson Carr

“The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.”

— Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

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

— Karl Weierstrass

“Poetic spirits didn't need stuff like mathematics; math eroded you and made you ordinary.”

— Patricia Geary

“He was not a very careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes. But he made mistakes in a good direction.…

— Goro Shimura

“Math is a science of not being wrong about things,”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed by everyone.”

— Isaac Asimov

“Mathematics does furnish the power for deliberate thought and accurate statement, and to speak the truth is one of the most social qualities a…

— S.T. Dutton

“A mathematician is an individual who proves his beliefs with equations.”

— Bill Gaede

“Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their lives trying to understand the infinite and perfect.”

— Bruce Schechter

“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects…

— Albert Einstein

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb