Achievement Quote by Ogyu Sorai

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They…

— Robert Musil

A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity,…

— Timothy Gowers

Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they…

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects, philosophers in concepts, geometers in images, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators, writers in impressions, and idiots…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

“I spoke of the 'real' mathematics of Fermat and other great mathematicians, the mathematics which has permanent aesthetic value, as for example the best…

— G.H. Hardy

I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.

— Richard P. Feynman

I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even…

— Julia Robinson

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

— Henri Poincare