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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be…

— Abraham Robinson

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that…

— Richard Baxter

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of…

— Richard Dawkins

“I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of…

— Jennifer Ouellette

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. Math…

— Jordan Ellenberg

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

— Whitfield Diffie

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

— Freeman Dyson

“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

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

— Richard P. Feynman

A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen there are…

— Henri Poincare

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.

— Freeman Dyson

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

— Keith Devlin