Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

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.

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

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.

People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own.

A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview.

The dreams we dream today will be the light to the generation to come.

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.

This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

Douglas: You really got to stop doing that. Isabel: Doing what? Douglas: Getting prettier everyday.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

In the end [after the 1905 revolution], Russia gained nothing more than a breathing spell.