Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or…

— G. H. Hardy

There are many things I still don't know or don't do well in comic books. It's more a question of having the will to…

— Sean Michael Wilson

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

— G. H. Hardy

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something,…

— G. H. Hardy

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity…

— G. H. Hardy

The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas…

— G. H. Hardy

I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.

— Sigmund Freud

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

— Carl Gustav Hempel

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom…

— Ken Robinson

And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to…

— Galileo Galilei

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the…

— Emily Deschanel

“everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. The boy keeps me alive, he thought. I…

— Ernest Hemingway

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

— Barbara Kolb

“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude…

— Thomas Merton