Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. Bertrand Russell
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. Fran Lebowitz
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. Aristotle.
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. Charles Caleb Colton
The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics. Plato
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense. Charles Darwin
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. John von Neumann
In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them. John von Neumann
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. John von Neumann