Riley White

“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. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”
― G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

“Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. “Immortality” may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.”
― G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

“The respectful and objective treatment given to cranks in newspapers-presenting both sides of a question when there is only one side-leads one to wonder how much other such material appears in their pages.”
― Underwood Dudley, Mathematical Cranks