Cleverness Quote by Louis J. Mordell

A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

— Plato

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

— Ron Silver

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

— Anonymous

There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones.

— Lipman Bers

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

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Alan Greenspan

A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good…

— Steven G. Krantz

The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the…

— George Henry Lewes

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

— Evan Esar