“The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.”
“Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.”
“A new field of science was emerging: mathematical cognition, or the scientific inquiry into how the human brain gives rise to mathematics... the transition from mathematics to neuropsychology.”
“Poetic spirits didn't need stuff like mathematics; math eroded you and made you ordinary.”
“Yeah," I said. "You might be human, Jack, but Ariel's mathematics. She's all mathematics."There are so many things I wish I hadn't said.”
“The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.”