Bad thing Quote by Jo Boaler

I'm a mathematician because I'm too slow to be a writer.

— Jack Edmonds

“Being good at mathematics is not necessarily the same as being fast at it. Taking the time to understand things properly is worthwhile.”

— Lara Alcock

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

— Francis Crick

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have…

— Plato

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

— Edward Norton Lorenz

Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are…

— Dirk Jan Struik

Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.

— Peter Cameron

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

— Isaac Asimov

Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it.

— Jack Edmonds

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

— Marcus du Sautoy