As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Arthur CayleyEuclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.
Arthur CayleyMetrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.
Arthur CayleySo much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.
Arthur Cayley