Facts Quote by Keith Devlin

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

“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

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

— Anonymous

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is…

— Bertrand Russell

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be…

— Abraham Robinson

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

— Paul Lockhart

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science…

— William Stanley Jevons

It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise they are…

— Blaise Pascal