Grows Quote by Dirk Jan Struik

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by…

— Alfred Adler

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

Mathematics is as old as Man.

— Stefan Banach

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

— Dirk Jan Struik

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

— Arnold Sommerfeld

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

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

— Marcus du Sautoy

Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

— Steven G. Krantz

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it.

— Jack Edmonds

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

— Anonymous

Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert…

— Gian-Carlo Rota