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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Keith Devlin

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.

— Edward Norton Lorenz

“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

“...the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be…

— Stanisław Lem

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

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

— Percy Williams Bridgman

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

It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is…

— Gian-Carlo Rota