Art Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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 to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

— David Quammen

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

— Anonymous

“Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects, philosophers in concepts, geometers in images, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators, writers in impressions, and idiots…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

— Plato

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought…

— Alfred Adler

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a…

— Constance Reid

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They…

— Robert Musil

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

— Harold Jeffreys

Mathematics is a language

— J. Willard Gibbs