Advantage Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or…

— W. H. Auden

The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct…

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

“What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school?”

— Erich Maria Remarque

It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations,…

— George Santayana

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or…

— G. H. Hardy

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

— Albert Einstein

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

— George Bernard Shaw

The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new problems. By…

— George Polya

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

— Joseph Glanvill

He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving.

— Paulo Coelho

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and…

— Hermann Weyl