"Our epoch is the epoch of increasing consciousness; in this field Mathematics has done its bit. It has made us conscious of the limits of its own capabilities." (Rózsa Péter, "Playing with Infinity: Mathematical Explorations and Excursions", 1976)
"You cannot read mathematics superficially; the inescapable abstraction always has an element of self-torture in it, and the one to whom this self-torture is joy is the mathematician." (Rózsa Péter, "Playing with Infinity: Mathematical Explorations and Excursions", 1976)
"I love mathematics [...] principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given him his greatest game the encompassing of the infinite." (Rózsa Péter)
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