Amazement Quote by Martin Gardner

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

— Abraham Maslow

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in…

— Anonymous

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

— Martin Gardner

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

— Martin Gardner

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

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

— Abraham Flexner

“Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why she was…

— Mark Haddon

“It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians.”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately…

— Francis Crick

Physicists and mathematicians regularly invade other fields but other fields do not invade theirs so we can see which fields are hardest for very…

— Dominic Cummings

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such…

— Apostolos Doxiadis

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

— Andrew Wiles

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

— George Woodcock

If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight…

— Susan Jacoby