Quotes from Edward Charles Titchmarsh

I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.

Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.