Quote by Isaac Asimov

“A mathematician is an individual who proves his beliefs with equations.”

— Bill Gaede

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges

“I am a mathematician, sir. I never permit myself to think.”

— John Dickson Carr

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

— Bill Gaede

“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being…

— Joseph Bertrand

“Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.”

— Anonymous

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

— Bruce Schechter

“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.”

— Karl Weierstrass

“In his eulogy, the Marquis de Condorcet observed that whosoever pursues mathematics in the future will be "guided and sustained by the genius of…

— William Dunham

“One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than…

— Heinrich Hertz

“...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians sometimes make mistakes, the spirit of mathematics is always right…

— Alfred Korzybski

“I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything. That which can be imagined is as much an approximation to truth as that which can be…

— Charlie Chaplin