We mathematicians are all a bit crazy.
—Lev Davidovich Landau (Jan. 22, 1908 — Apr. 1, 1968)
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
— Galileo Galilei (1564 — 1642); Italian astronomer & physicist.
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
— German writer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over, if you just sit there.
— Will Rogers, actor, (1879-1935)
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
— D.E. Knuth (January 10,1938-)
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
— Aristotle (384-322 BC)