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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.