The good Christian should be aware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell. (St. Augustine) 1
A man whose mind has gone astray should study mathematics. (Francis Bacon)
A person who can, within a year, solve x2 – 92y2 = 1 is a mathematician. (Brahmagupta)
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there. (Charles R Darwin)
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. (P. Erdos)
Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me. (Abraham Flexner)
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful. (Martin Luther)
He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god. (Plato)
God geometrizes. (Pluto)
Tai Melcher suggested including this quote. Quoth she, “Maybe if they’re scared of us, they won’t laugh at us anymore. Or at least not as loudly.”
