Bits Quote by Benoit Mandelbrot

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I…

— Carl Sandburg

I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect,…

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I decided not…

— Stephen Sondheim

Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.

— John James Audubon

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual…

— Alastair Reynolds

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

— Mary Callahan Erdoes

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

— David Crane

At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.

— Matt Haig

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

— Linda M. Godwin

I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics.

— Philip Kitcher

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

— Grover Norquist