One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may it never come) will be the mathematicians' war.
– Philip J. Davis
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.
– Philip J. Davis
The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.