Deals Quote by Isaac Asimov

Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as…

— Henri Poincare

I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great…

— Winston Churchill

In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at…

— Michael Atiyah

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a…

— Clifford Geertz

Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with…

— Thomas A. Edison

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.

— Edward Norton Lorenz

I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with…

— M. C. Escher

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

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something,…

— G. H. Hardy

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

— Abraham Flexner

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately…

— Francis Crick