Cosgrove The Groups of Wrath. The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. Charles Darwin A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. Richard Dedekind Numbers are the free creation of the human mind. It takes immense genius to represent, simply and sincerely, Albert Einstein Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Imagination is more important that knowledge.
Do not worry too much about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater. Fontenelle Mathematicians are like lovers . . . Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must grant him also, and from this consequence another. In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of an individual. The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed.