Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.

Men, and pigs, are hard on women who sacrifice their virtue, especially for love." Mattis Tannhouser

If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

I'm almost completely deaf anyway. So I'm worried. I'm very worried.

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.