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mathematician, n:
        Some one who believes imaginary things appear right before your i's.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen:  whatever you say to them they
translate into their own language and forthwith it is something
entirely different.
                -- Goethe

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate
into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
                -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.
                -- Henry Adams

Mathematicians take it to the limit.

Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts
to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
                -- Albert Einstein

Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what
one is talking about nor whether what is said is true.
                -- Russell

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty --
a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any
part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapping of painting or music,
yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the
greatest art can show.  The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense
of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is
to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
                -- Bertrand Russell

Matrimony is the root of all evil.

Matrimony isn't a word, it's a sentence.