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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mathematics is written for mathematicians. — Nicolaus Copernicus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 write for the circulating library. — George Henry Lewes

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

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