Advice Quote by Leonhard Euler

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges

As professor in the Polytechnic School in Zürich I found myself for the first time obliged to lecture upon the elements of the differential…

— Richard Dedekind

I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science;…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

— Alan Garner

“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being…

— Joseph Bertrand

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry] ”

— David Hilbert

I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better.

— Rick Santelli

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

— Albert Einstein

It was not to learn about politics that I had gone to Cambridge. I was there as a mathematician, having won a major scholarship…

— Christopher Robin Milne

“In my view, Euler's tranquil temperament, fairness, and generosity were integral to his greatness as a mathematician and scientist- he was never inclined to…

— David Stipp

In college, I had an early introduction to classical genetics from Professor Dan Lindsley, also an extraordinary teacher who influenced me greatly.

— Bruce Beutler