Bits Quote by John Allen Paulos

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

— Núria Añó

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

“All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platonic forms. An ice palace. But they also live…

— Sylvain Cappell

Mathematicians are born, not made.

— Henri Poincare

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of…

— David Mumford

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles they're like…

— Tom Noddy

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

— Bill Gaede

“It is true that doing original math is 'lonely.' But it is also true that professional mathematicians compose a community.”

— David Foster Wallace

“What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school?”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“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

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

— John Dickson Carr