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

"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…"

"Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood."

"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…"