If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

Nature Quotes