Distinguished Quote by Felix Klein

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

— Morris Kline

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.

— Joseph Warren

The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural world. And…

— Anya Kamenetz

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

— Plato

Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise they are…

— Blaise Pascal

The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any…

— John Von Neumann

Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.

— Ralph P. Boas, Jr

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

— George Polya

A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. Math…

— Jordan Ellenberg

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is by logic that we prove. It is by intuition that we discover," said the mathematician Henri Poincare.l”

— Ellen J. Langer