Quotes on Math

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

Well done is better than well said.