Giving Quote by Richard A. Falk

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

If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where, if you…

— Martin Gardner

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of…

— David Mumford

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

— Alonzo Church

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

— Richard P. Feynman

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

— Keith Devlin

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

“I am a mathematician, sir. I never permit myself to think.”

— John Dickson Carr

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

— Anonymous

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

— Ogyu Sorai

“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