Lazy Quote by Francis Crick

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

Mathematics is for lazy people.

— Peter Hilton

You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.

— Maxwell Rosenlicht

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

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

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately…

— Francis Crick

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

I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what I do.…

— Isadore Singer

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of…

— David Mumford

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

— Plato

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have…

— Plato

Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.

— Benoit Mandelbrot