Ambition Quote by Timothy Gowers

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

The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its…

— Herbert Turnbull

I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance. I did…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

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

— Ogyu Sorai

If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics…

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them…

— G. H. Hardy

A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.

— Jean Dieudonne

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

— Francis Crick

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from it.

— Christopher Robin Milne

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a…

— Constance Reid