Doe Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure

— Paul Lockhart

Mathematics is a language

— J. Willard Gibbs

... we should not be disappointed that everyday language does not work any longer at the apex of our little theory. It is natural;…

— Alexandre Borovik

Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is…

— Margaret Wertheim

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

— Judy Chicago

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

— Harold Jeffreys

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

— David Quammen

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of…

— Lynn Steen

Women are not allowed to be polymaths; we're only allowed to do single maths.

— Sandi Toksvig

Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is…

— Hermann Weyl

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

— Larry Wall