Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.

A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.

An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.

God ought to be given the choice portion of our wealth and not its dregs.

We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence.

Love is not materialistic. It's intangible yet somehow an undeniable feeling. You know it when you have it. I have lots of love in my life and I am blessed.

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

Teach your parents well.

The most important thing is to just be good at what you do.

People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to tell a story.