Quotes on Good Math

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.