Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings. – Alfred North Whitehead

God is real, unless declared integer. – Author Unknown

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius. – Harold Marston Morse

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms. – Carl Boyer, 1949, calculus textbook