author: Bertrand Russell content: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty\u2014\ beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our\ \ weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely\ \ pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show." id: ff69844b-e61b-4748-8870-4f4d38fc83b1