It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead.

Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.