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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.

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

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist.

You don't watch 'A Beautiful Mind' and say, 'This is how every mathematician is.'

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.