Death Quote by Armand Borel

Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions, and on…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture,…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

“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

Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense.

— Lord Kelvin

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes".”

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Keith Devlin

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

Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

— Lord Kelvin