As I have often said, electrons and gerbils don't cheat. People do.

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.

Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life, ” Standard said.“Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.

A true friend sees your tears of sadness, And quickly turns them into tears of joy and laughter, Forming a rainbow.

When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

Catsuits were big for me in the '90s, and I had many of them. Even catsuits with shorts in them.

Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.