English language Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Profundity often goes past theissue to some deep but uselesstruth.

— Anonymous

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

— Keith Devlin

Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.

— Mason Cooley

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

— Anthony Burgess

There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have…

— Otto E. Neugebauer

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

— Anonymous

When I told my son that I had to give a talk about my work to non-mathematicians, he warned me that regular people don't…

— Richard A. Falk

“...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians sometimes make mistakes, the spirit of mathematics is always right…

— Alfred Korzybski

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

— Anonymous

If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Back to the root of the word “profundity,” it means insightful and understanding.”

— Pearl Zhu

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of…

— David Mumford