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

“Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.”

“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.”

“Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.”

“Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.”

“With the possible exception of the higher reaches of pure mathematics or theoretical physics, one can scarcely imagine anything more inhuman than philosophy. Its worship of logic in all its cold, crystalline purity; its determination to stride the bleak and icy mountaintops of theory and abstraction: to be a philosopher is to be existentially deracinated. Philosophers should be offered condolences rather than encouragement.”