Educated people Quote by Andrew Hodges

“What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school?”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“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

“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry] ”

— David Hilbert

“We mathematicians understand that without the education of children, the economy cannot grow, and the world would starve from ignorance.”

— V.M.Robinson

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

— Abraham Kaplan

“He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can…

— Álvaro de Campos

Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this…

— Roger Bacon

“He insisted that it was impossible to understand a single word of the Book of Nature without knowing the language of mathematics.”

— Karen Armstrong

“had been deeply struck.... by the damage wreaked upon mathematics in France by the first world war, when “a misguided notion of equality in…

— Edward Frenkel

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

— Bill Gaede

“I thought about the hours we spent practicing increasingly complex math problems. He taught me that lack of knowledge and lack of intelligence were…

— J.D. Vance

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

— Bruce Schechter