Bent Quote by Roger Ascham

Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others,…

— Roger Ascham

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others,…

— Roger Ascham

“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

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

— Claude Fayette Bragdon

“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes".”

— Robert A. Heinlein

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes,…

— Anonymous

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

— Isaac Barrow

Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight, excitement, and…

— Gil Kalai

“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

“Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their lives trying to understand the infinite and perfect.”

— Bruce Schechter

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

— Ogyu Sorai

“He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can…

— Álvaro de Campos