Had Mittag-Leffler had his way, I should have to wait until the year 1984, which to me seemed too great a demand!

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.

To ask the right question is harder than to answer it.

Great innovation only happens when people aren't afraid to do things differently.

In Mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.

Image is only temporal. Substance endures. Who said, "Image is everything"? And who believed it?

But remember what I said about forgetting what I said?

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

Inner seeing has nothing to do with physical vision; it's the perception of life directly.

If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.

This time it will be a long one.

I'm a 'bleeding-heart liberal,' one of those card-carrying Democrats that Rush Limbaugh thinks is a communist. And I'm proud of it.

My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like.