Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.
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We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social problems, informing political debate and for the economy.
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.
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.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
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.
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