Benefit Quote by Nicolaus Copernicus

I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies…

— G. H. Hardy

If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of…

— Richard P. Feynman

I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was…

— Tom Lehrer

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them…

— G. H. Hardy

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

— Norbert Wiener

“Mathematicians need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.”

— Paul Hoffman

If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture,…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“It is true that doing original math is 'lonely.' But it is also true that professional mathematicians compose a community.”

— David Foster Wallace

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

— John Arbuthnot

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still, from…

— Alexander Grothendieck