Dislike Quote by Francis Crick

The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass…

— Ernst Mach

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

— Francis Crick

“I'm very curious to meet a guy who makes you completely forsake the scientific method in favor of unfounded supposition and speculation." "It's called…

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

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

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

Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.

— Ian Hacking

An important aspect of being a scientist isn't just knowing the math, but also knowing of imagination.

— George Zafiris

Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

— Roger Lewin

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

— Anonymous

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior…

— Henry David Thoreau

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes,…

— Anonymous

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

— Joseph Warren