Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
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You don't watch 'A Beautiful Mind' and say, 'This is how every mathematician is.'
Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
Mathematicians are born, not made.
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.