Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations. — Hermann Weyl
There’s nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows — Marjorie Benton Cooke
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. — Alfred North Whitehead
No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is — Paul Lockhart
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics — Greg Egan
I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between. — George Polya
Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered — Ivars Peterson
The perfection of mathematical beauty is such…that whatsoever is most beautiful — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the — Cassius Jackson Keyser