Being wise Quote by George Henry Lewes

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

— Isaac Barrow

We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or…

— John Desmond Bernal

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

— Ogyu Sorai

“Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects, philosophers in concepts, geometers in images, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators, writers in impressions, and idiots…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

— Karl Weierstrass

When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the…

— G. H. Hardy

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as…

— Henri Poincare

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

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

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

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

Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to…

— Leonardo da Vinci