The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

All is number.

-- Pythagoras

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

-- Pythagoras

Music is a mathematical science that investigates how melodies are composed and their various properties.

-- Farabi

I did a lot of math. I made a lot of money, and I gave almost all of it away. That's the story of my life.

-- Jim Simons

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

-- Nicolaus Copernicus