It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
One day we're going to look back, and whatever this era will get called, it's going to put a premium on math and science.
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
Mathematics is as old as Man.