How did he do it? He must be a genius!

God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"

If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.

Nature imitates mathematics.

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.

[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory.

Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us forever.

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.

It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.

Let her go, ” Brendan said, and Will did. And that was the biggest mistake of his life. Letting her go.

From the intellectual point of view an abyss may exist between a great mathematician and his boot maker, but from the point of view of character the difference is most often slight or non-existent

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know.

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.

Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first.

We have such an amazing future ahead of us.