Circumstances Quote by Marquis de Custine

Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

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

— Kurt Gödel

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

— John von Neumann

There's barely any aspect of our modern lives that hasn't had a mathematical contribution at some point and yet, if you asked the average…

— Hannah Fry

I'm not sure how this happened, but somehow mathematics is getting politicized. We're trying to take the politics out and put the rigor back…

— Scott Bessent

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

— Simon Singh

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

— Anonymous

“Strictly quantitative mechanical calculations, by ratio or number, cannot be applied beforehand to human free productive organization as a whole.”

— Isabel Paterson

People calculate too much and think too little.

— Charlie Munger

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

— Anonymous

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

— Edward Griffith Begle