Ideas Quote by Isaac Barrow

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

— Barry Mazur

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

— John Maynard Smith

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

Everyone has to call 'time' at some stage.

— Lleyton Hewitt

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

— Keith Devlin

I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the…

— George Polya

The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.

— Kevin Ashton

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

— Tom Lehrer

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

— Anonymous

Time is just numbers

— Karen McGaughey

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