Dealing with problems Quote by John G. Kemeny

All problems in mathematics are psychological.

— Pierre Deligne

I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist.

— Alan Greenspan

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

— E. W. Howe

Most students who take math classes aren't going to be mathematicians. They're going to be engineers, statisticians - in many ways, that's the more…

— Terence Tao

It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.

— Timothy Gowers

Schools receive 12% more per student for those doing media studies or psychology than they do for those doing maths. You could change that…

— Liz Truss

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

— Whitfield Diffie

Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.

— Conrad Wolfram

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

— David Hilbert

Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

— Stephen Hawking

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

— Kurt Gödel

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind…

— Anonymous