A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dreaming" time.

We call the slope of a line m because the word "slope" begins with the letter m.

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted

– I’m going to be a writer, he reminded Milo.– And you won’t need literature?– I’ll write my own.

It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

The stupid woman is the one who thinks she doesn’t need any help.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.

I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.

Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.

I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.

I see a continuation of the populist outrage that prompted the Brexit and sparked the Bernie Sanders campaign.