How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

Rise above oneself and grasp the world.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

Eureka! (I have found it!).

Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. On floating bodies I, prop 5.

Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read.

Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy....

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

If You Want to Send a Message, Try Western Union.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Everybody in the world has a different reason for wishing they could say things that most people know not to say.

Nature works in parallel ways.

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.

A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul.

I like being a part of David Cronenberg’s world, I feel very at home there