#thematic

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard. ↗

— Janos Bolyai

#hasten #like #man #mathematical #retard

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. ↗

— George Boole

#also #appear #beautiful #being #being beautiful

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#himself #idol #mathematician #proof #pure

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins. ↗

— Georg Cantor

#ruins #beauty

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. ↗

— Felix Klein

#confused #countless #curve #enough #everyone

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics. ↗

— James Rainwater

#excelled #high #high school #i #mainly

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#also #calculated #mathematically #quality #stupid

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. ↗

— George Boole

#ideas #mathematics #number #quantity

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. ↗

— Arthur Cayley

#else #everything #explained #mathematical #perceived

I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air. ↗

— Bob Costas

#any #being #between #did #different