Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.
Charles Hermite

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
Thelonious Monk

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.
Abraham Robinson

As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know.
Stephen Cole Kleene

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
Andre Weil

For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.
Stephen Cole Kleene

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.
E. T. Bell

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
Andrew Wiles

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.
George Woodcock

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
Daniel Bernoulli

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
Edsger Dijkstra

Mathematicians are born, not made.
Henri Poincare

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
Edsger Dijkstra

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
Andrew Wiles

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
Henri Poincare

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
Leonhard Euler

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

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicolaus Copernicus