Communication Quote by Alonzo Church

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

Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.

— Henry John Stephen Smith

I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it.

— Grover Norquist

A lot of the math that I do, it's not sort of premeditated. I talk online or with a colleague, and I get interested,…

— Terence Tao

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

— Winston Churchill

Nobody listens to mathematicians.

— Carl Sagan

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

— Mary Callahan Erdoes

For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest…

— Stanislaw Ulam

I find discussing mathematics with colleagues of different backgrounds one of the most productive ways of making progress.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

Some of the greatest ideas of all time have come to people during Math class... none of which had anything to do with Math.

— Hussein Nishah

Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles they're like…

— Tom Noddy

Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my…

— Stanislaw Ulam