But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.

I was x years old in the year x2.

Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.

It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

Common integration is only the memory of differentiation.

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

Max Rose: Vo? What kind of name is that? Spader: What kind of name is Rose? Isn't that some kind of flower?

A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

My work gives me a sense of purpose that I never really had before - it gives me a lot of joy, and it would be wonderful to invite other people to get involved.

He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14.

You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.

Smile, breathe, relax and stay present.