Delight Quote by John Hurt

A mathematician either has a feeling for equations and an understanding and delight in it, not only in the purity of it, but in…

— John Hurt

The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct…

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

— Albert Einstein

There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not…

— Alfred Adler

The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.

— Jean Dieudonne

I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance. I did…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something,…

— G. H. Hardy

How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague…

— Anonymous

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.

— Paul Halmos

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. Math…

— Jordan Ellenberg

Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those conceptions of…

— Charles Kingsley