I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but every possible world, must conform.

There are no sects in geometry.

We had tortured circles until they coughed up their secret lives: _.

A curved line is the loveliest distance between two points.

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.