Friendship Quote by Stanislaw Ulam

My older brother was the person who got me interested in science in general. He used to tell me what he learned in school.…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life,…

— Bertrand Russell

I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.

— Ken Liu

Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are…

— Dirk Jan Struik

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

— George E. Brown, Jr

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

— Alonzo Church

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the…

— John Pople

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I…

— John Polkinghorne

“I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever allow himself…

— G.H. Hardy

Mathematics is as old as Man.

— Stefan Banach

Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

— Michael Marcus

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

— Aravind Adiga