Acting Quote by Norbert Wiener

“Mathematics is a tool which ideally permits mediocre minds to solve complicated problems expeditiously.”

— Floyd Alburn Firestone

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

— Samuil Shatunovsky

For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.

— Rachel Hartman

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

— John Edensor Littlewood

Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

— Steven G. Krantz

Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it.

— Jack Edmonds

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental…

— Ernst Mach

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must…

— Richard Courant

The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

— Donald Knuth

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

— Oliver Heaviside

The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys…

— W. W. Sawyer