Carpenter Quote by Bob Dylan

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

— Tom Lehrer

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They…

— Robert Musil

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

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

— Bill Gaede

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

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

There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones.

— Lipman Bers

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

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

— Abraham Flexner

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

— Francis Crick

“Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their lives trying to understand the infinite and perfect.”

— Bruce Schechter