As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.

The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.

The object of pure Mathematic (is) that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

This is my greatest desire, to move heavenly onward.

I believe "If you're "managing" people rather than leading them and tracking time rather than results, you've already lost. Give it up."I do not manage people, I lead them

One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this, " he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?

I'm halfway around the world with dozens of bags, feeling like all 4 members of Color Me Badd.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

I felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.