Beats Quote by G. H. Hardy

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

— Jerry Buss

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I…

— Carl Sandburg

I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was good at…

— Alex Sharp

Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.

— John James Audubon

Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.

— Robert Langlands

I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the…

— Whitfield Diffie

I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect,…

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.

— Stanislaw Ulam

The mathematics faculty were encouraging me to shift into mathematics as my major and explaining to me that it was not almost impossible to…

— John Nash

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

— Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual…

— Alastair Reynolds

When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed.

— Terence Tao