Amount Quote by Carl Sandburg

I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.

— David Hilbert

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 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 went through a period of time when math was my favorite subject. Then math wasn't as fun so much.

— Noah Gray-Cabey

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

— Mary Callahan Erdoes

I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.

— Hikaru Nakamura

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

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the…

— John Pople

After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far…

— Isaac Asimov

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

— Jerry Buss

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found…

— Andrew Wiles