“Wherever there is number, there is beauty.” -Proclus
“The book of nature is written in the language of Mathematic” -Galileo
“Mathemathics is the queen of the science” – Carl Friedrich Gauss
“The advancement and perfection of Mathematics are intimately connected with the prosperity of the State” -Napoleon
“A Mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician” -Karl Weierstrass
“The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful” Georg Cantor
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” -Albert Einstein
“Do not worry too much about your difficulty in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater.” -Albert Einstein
“How can it be that mathematics, a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?” -Albert Einstein
“Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.” -Godfrey Harold Hardy
“The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.” Alfred North Whitehead
“A Man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.” -Tolstoy
“All mathematicians share… a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.” -Martin Gardner
“in the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a president used the third derivative to advance his case for re-election.” -Hugo Rossi
“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.” -Confucius
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