Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
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This, therefore, is mathematics: she gives life to her own discoveries; she awakens the mind and purifies the intellect; she brings light to our intrinsic ideas; she abolishes the oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth.
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge.
The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.