Being true Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something,…

— G. H. Hardy

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

— Abraham Flexner

“Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why she was…

— Mark Haddon

“It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians.”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately…

— Francis Crick

Physicists and mathematicians regularly invade other fields but other fields do not invade theirs so we can see which fields are hardest for very…

— Dominic Cummings

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such…

— Apostolos Doxiadis