Analogies Quote by Robert Musil

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

— Bill Gaede

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

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social problems, informing…

— Marcus du Sautoy

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

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

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and…

— Alfred Adler

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

— Bob Dylan

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort…

— James Clerk Maxwell