Being silly Quote by G. H. Hardy

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

The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and…

— Hermann Weyl

There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not…

— Alfred Adler

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.

— G. H. Hardy

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

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

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

— G. H. Hardy

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

— Abraham Kaplan

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

— Albert Einstein

It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations,…

— George Santayana

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

“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry] ”

— David Hilbert