Alluring Quote by Philip J. Davis

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

— Edward Kasner

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out…

— Marston Morse

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take…

— Shane Carruth

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of…

— Bertrand Russell

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.

— Simon Critchley

Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

— Bertrand Russell

“To be an engineer, and build a marvelous machine, and to see the beauty of its operation is as valid an experience of beauty…

— Calvin C. Clawson

“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful in Science,…

— Robert Turnbull

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in…

— Anonymous

Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure…

— Charlie Munger

Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture.

— Bertrand Russel