I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide
to take no more mathematics courses. They might read more

I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide
to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear
the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician?

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of
human thought independent of experience, is so read more

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of
human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted
to the objects of reality?

Revolutions never occur in mathematics.

Revolutions never occur in mathematics.

The Handmaiden of the Sciences.

The Handmaiden of the Sciences.

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

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

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated
observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated
observation, that mathematics is a human invention.