Admiration Quote by Donald Knuth

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

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

— Anonymous

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

A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity,…

— Timothy Gowers

The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.

— Jean Dieudonne

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

— Albert Einstein

Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are…

— Dirk Jan Struik

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

— Martin Gardner

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than…

— Anonymous

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as…

— Henri Poincare

Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to…

— Hermann Hesse