Incapacity Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.

— Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?

— Tobias Dantzig

Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

— Ogyu Sorai

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

— Henri Poincare

“In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still, from…

— Alexander Grothendieck

It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the…

— George Henry Lewes

“Strange as it may seem, not all of the great mathematicians have been professors in colleges or universities. Quite a few were soldiers by…

— Eric Temple Bell

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

— Bill Gaede

Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't spend all…

— Timothy Spall