All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

No one is expected to achieve the impossible.

You’ve got to guess at worst cases: No model will tell you that. My rule of thumb is double the worst that you have ever seen.

And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.

The truth is that I've always been fascinated with wealth in America. To me, it's been about the American dream and the corruption of that dream.

I’ve always preferred having girlfriends to just seeing people.

We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.

The characters Im most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You dont see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.

I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.

Am I just chasing it because it's the hardest thing for me to get and I want to prove I can do it?