Hypatia

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

There is no royal road to geometry.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

The science of numbers is the highest of all sciences, and the most useful.

Mathematics is the door and key to the sciences.

The great book of nature can be read only by those who know the language in which it is written. And this language is mathematics.

Without mathematics, there is no art.

The study of mathematics is like a river, whose source is small, but whose course is broad and deep.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

The highest aim of the mathematician is to find some hidden order in the universe.

The true spirit of delight, the exhilaration of the mathematician, is the sense of being more than man, of being at one with the ultimate spirit of the universe.

Mathematics is the language of the universe.

The more I study mathematics, the more I am convinced that the world is a beautiful place.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way.

Mathematics is the science of order and measure.

The study of mathematics is a journey into the unknown.