Nothing is more practical than a good theory.
Kurt Lewin
Derivatives are like sex. It’s not who we’re sleeping with, it’s who they’re sleeping with that’s the problem.
Warren Buffet
A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
Paul Erdös
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Arthur Eddington
If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
Herbert Stein