Quotations

Edmund Landau

[Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said:]
I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.

Quoted in J E Littlewood, A Mathematician's Miscellany, 1953.

It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.

Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

Wir Mathematiker sind alle ein biszchen meschugge.
We mathematicans are all a bit crazy.