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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'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
Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.
— Walter Isaacson
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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[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
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
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 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
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
— Henri Poincare
Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.
— George Henry Lewes
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
— Henri Poincare
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[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
You are utterly incorrect ... How many irate mathematicians are needed to get you to change your mind?
— Anonymous
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
Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.
— Jane Goodall
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
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
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
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
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Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.