Humanist Quote by Gregory Chaitin

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.

— Leon M. Lederman

“In his school, Bertrand Russell thought it was better if they had the sex, so they could give their undivided attention to mathematics, which…

— Paul Goodman

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

— Iris Murdoch

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

The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and…

— John Steinbeck

Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.

— Maxwell Rosenlicht

In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been…

— Henri Lebesgue

I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.

— Ken Liu

I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist.

— Alan Greenspan

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less…

— G. H. Hardy

“A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gass once wrote: “Language serves not only to express thought…

— Dan Simmons