Mathematics Quotes

I know there are groups at the top of the charts that are hailed as the saviors of rock 'n' roll and all that, but they are amateurs. They don't know where the music comes from . . . I wouldn't even think about playing music if I was born in these times . . . I'd probably turn to something like mathematics. That would interest me. Architecture would interest me. Something like that.

I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you, mine are still greater.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

As 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.