The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

A curved line is the loveliest distance between two points.

We had tortured circles until they coughed up their secret lives: _.

There are no sects in geometry.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but every possible world, must conform.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.

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.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die and decrease the surplus population. Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

There is no royal road to geometry.

Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

... mathematics ... affords the exact natural sciences a certain measure of certainty, to which without mathematics they could not attain.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Mathematicians who are only mathematicians have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise they are inaccurate and insufferable, for they are only right when the principles are quite clear.