Acknowledge Quote by Gian-Carlo Rota

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

— Henri Poincare

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be…

— Abraham Robinson

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture,…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their lives trying to understand the infinite and perfect.”

— Bruce Schechter

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

— Keith Devlin

Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions, and on…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit…

— Saint Augustine

Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.

— Moses Aaron Richardson