Mathematics Quote by Blaise Pascal

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

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics…

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

— Robert M. Hutchins

“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

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a…

— Constance Reid

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

— Felix Klein

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.

— Joseph Warren

The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question…

— Hippolyte Taine

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

— Keith Devlin

Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but…

— Meir Shalev

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

— Paul Lockhart