“In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”
John von Neumann
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”
Albert Einstein
“There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.”
Aristotle
“One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly disco”
“But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.”
“Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.”