Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.

It is commonly, but erroneously, believed that it is easy to ask questions. A fool, it is said, can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. The fact is that a wise man can answer many questions that a fool cannot ask.

Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.

The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.

[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the mind, but upon the whole mind, that this is the greatest desideratum is. I assume, beyond dispute.