Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide
to take no more mathematics courses. They might read more

I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide
to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear
the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician?

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can
be perceived but not explained.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can
be perceived but not explained.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a
knowledge of mathematics.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a
knowledge of mathematics.

Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists
nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum.
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Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists
nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum.
[Fr., Entre le penis et les mathematiques . . . il n'existe rien.
Rien! C'est le vide.]

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its
thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into read more

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its
thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful
theories.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics