Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a bet…

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influen…

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselve…

God does arithmetic.

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.