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Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

— Ogyu Sorai

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

— John Edensor Littlewood

You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.

— Maxwell Rosenlicht

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

— Benjamin Moser

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

In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at…

— Michael Atiyah

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

— Andrew Wiles

Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg…

— Daniel Tammet

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary…

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

— Edsger Dijkstra

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

— Yuri Milner