Mathematics! not only truth
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth,
but supreme beauty
a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture,
without appeal to any part of our weaker nature,
without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music,
yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as
only the greatest art can show.
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man,
which is the touchstone of highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics
as surely as in poetry.
What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task,
but to be assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again
before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement."
Bertrand Russell
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