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You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy. — Maxwell Rosenlicht

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? — Albert Einstein

It is absurd to say that mathematicians have not discovered the fourth dimension. — H.P. Lovecraft

It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless. — Isadore Singer

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. — Felix Klein

Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their lives trying to understand the infinite and perfect. — Bruce Schechter

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics). — Keith Devlin

Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it. — Walter Isaacson

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore. — Henry Adams

Everyone in the sciences secretly believes that mathematicians are smarter than they are. I think mathematicians also believe this. At — Paul Graham

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians. — Thelonious Monk

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal. — Stanislaw Ulam

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks. — Isaac Barrow

Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way. — Benoit Mandelbrot

Mathematicians among my readers do not need to be informed that " ... " is the algebraical sign representing a blend of wheeze, croak, and hiccough. — P.G. Wodehouse

Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding. — Larry Wall

Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians. — Benoit Mandelbrot

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad ... mathematicians go mad. — G.K. Chesterton

There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians. — Margot Lee Shetterly

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. — Edsger Dijkstra

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. — Morris Kline

The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight. — Philip J. Davis

When I told my son that I had to give a talk about my work to non-mathematicians, he warned me that regular people don't think like mathematicians. — Richard A. Falk

Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do. — Jennifer Tour Chayes

Nobody listens to mathematicians. — Carl Sagan

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful kind of play! — Constance Reid

Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds." — David Malet Armstrong

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom. — Joseph Warren

Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert pianist. — Gian-Carlo Rota

RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an 'optimization problem'. — Sylvia Nasar

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The NSA employs more mathematicians, buys more computer hardware, and intercepts more messages than any other organization in the world. — Simon Singh

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world. — Bill Gaede

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. — M.C. Escher

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. — George Woodcock

Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently. — Marcus Du Sautoy

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. — Daniel Bernoulli

The fact that we cannot write down all the digits of pi is not a human shortcoming, as mathematicians sometimes think. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Spaceships are for acrobats who are also mathematicians. — Robert A. Heinlein

Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchman. They translate into their own language whatever is said to them and forthwith the thing is utterly changed. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. — Voltaire

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. — James C. Maxwell

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy. — Francis Crick

Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one's way in the dark. — Roberto Bolano

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians — Freeman Dyson

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years. — Charles Hermite

Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach

Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas Jr.

All mathematicians share ... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics. — Martin Gardner

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives. — Bob Dylan

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation. — Richard P. Feynman

Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel! — Noga Alon

A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye. — Bill Gaede

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. — Andrew Wiles

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. — Augustus De Morgan

Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it. — Jack Edmonds

It is really this "mathematical mindset" that seems to be most useful to those who are not trained to think as mathematicians. — Edward Frenkel

Mathematics is written for mathematicians. — Nicolaus Copernicus

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. — Alfred North Whitehead

Basic trigonometric properties put forth by Muslim mathematicians serve as basis for how GPS systems work today — Firas Alkhateeb

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. — Andrew Wiles

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible? — Henri Poincare

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library. — George Henry Lewes

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

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. — Henri Poincare

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. — Albert Einstein

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. — Andre Weil

2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid — Thom Yorke

You are utterly incorrect ... How many irate mathematicians are needed to get you to change your mind? — Anonymous

Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income? — Tobias Dantzig

Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet." — John Allen Paulos

Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws. — Roger Lewin

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't. — Jane Goodall

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians. — Rene Thom

What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field. — Galileo Galilei

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood. — Edward Norton Lorenz

It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians. — Margot Lee Shetterly

I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians. — Richard P. Feynman

A result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs.
The Nature of Mathematics — Max Black

Mathematicians are born, not made. — Henri Poincare

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand. — Kenneth E. Boulding

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science ... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it. — Aristotle.

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work. — Simon Newcomb

The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics. — Bill Gaede

When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians, she said: "You got what to wear?". — Richard A. Falk

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ... — Leon M. Lederman

Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it. — Richard P. Gabriel

Physicists believe that the Gaussian law has been proved in mathematics while mathematicians think that it was experimentally established in physics. — Henri Poincare

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules ... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. — Brian Greene

Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. — Bill Gaede

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary. — Paul Lockhart

There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones. — Lipman Bers

If war were arithmetic, then the mathematicians would rule the world. (Lord Petyr Baelish) — George R R Martin

[I]t is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best. — Mark Haddon

As we mathematicians like to say: PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI! — Dan Brown

Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry. — Ron Eglash

Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.