I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
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.
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
You don't watch 'A Beautiful Mind' and say, 'This is how every mathematician is.'
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist.
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.