"Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is……" — Philip J. Davis

"Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as exciting as a telephone book... Contrariwise, appreciation of this element makes the subject live in a wonderful manner and burn as no other creation of the human mind seems to do."

Philip J. Davis

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