Modem mathematics is highly artistic. A simple theme is chosen, some conception pretty and charming in itself. Then it is shown that by simply holding this idea up to one's eye and looking through it, a whole forest that before seemed a thick and tangled jungle of bushes and briers is seen to be in reality an orderly garden.

In: A.G. Sedgwick, The 19th Century: A Review of Progress During the Past One Hundred, Years in the Chief Departments of Human Activity, The Century's Great Men in Science (p. 317)