I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were safe, a source of comfort.

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.

I'll tell you once,
and I'll tell you again.
There's always a prime
between n and 2n.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems

Nature already uses the language of mathematics, so why not work with the environment instead of against it. We need to start mimicking the mathematical logic that occurs in the landscape, identify existing systems, and out of those concepts create new ones.