Nothing is more practical than a good theory.
Kurt Lewin
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
David Hilbert
It is true that a mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a perfect mathematician.
Karl Weierstrass
A man whose mind has gone astray should study mathematics.
Francis Bacon
This shit’s chess, it ain’t checkers.
Alonzo Harris