A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria EdgeworthAs far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert EinsteinDo not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert EinsteinYou can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern University, teaching an honors calculus courseMathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. ReedMathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand RussellLottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper stickerThere are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art. -- John W. N. SullivanThe mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- James Joseph SylvesterMathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull