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Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can't get along socially, that they're not good with people.

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.

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

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.

I'd always been interested in psychology.

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.