Growing Quote by Terence Tao

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

— Jerry Buss

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

— David Chalmers

I wanted to be an astronomer until I discovered I'm terrible at math.

— Juliana Harkavy

I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

— Terri Windling

I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I decided not…

— Stephen Sondheim

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

— Philip Emeagwali

I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the…

— Whitfield Diffie

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

— Bel Powley

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

— Mary Callahan Erdoes

To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion −…

— Paul Lockhart