Weird Math Quotes

“Mathematics, contrary to how it may sometimes seem, is an endless adventure into the weirdest and wildest places ever countenanced by the human intellect. It lures us into thinking that it’s ordinary and banal, because its roots are in the familiar – in simple numbers and shapes. It began as the tool of the merchant, the farmer, the builder of temples and pyramids, the early watchers of the seasons and the skies. But it’s anything but ordinary. It permeates every aspect of the reality in which we’re embedded, forming an invisible infrastructure behind the behaviour of everything around us, from the smallest particle to the universe as a whole.”
― David Darling, Weird Maths: At the Edge of Infinity and Beyond