"Mathematicians are used to game-playing according to a set of rules they lay down in advance, despite the fact that n…"

"Quapropter bono christiano, sive mathematici, sive quilibet impie divinantium... cavendi sunt, ne consortio daemonior…"

"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."

"I united the majority of well-informed persons into a club, which we called by the name of the Junto, and the object …"

"Avec toute l’algèbre du monde on n’est souvent qu’un sot lorsqu’on ne sait pas autre chose. Peut-être dans dix ans la…"

"Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen; redet man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie es in ihre Sprache, und dann ist es a…"

"To be a mathematician you must love mathematics more than family, religion, money, comfort, pleasure, glory. I do not…"

"The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear a…"

"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."

"Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for t…"