I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.

The thought: A logical inquiry

There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height.

The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.

Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic.

What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth?

Arithmetic has began to totter.

Semantics are just some antics used by the enemy to get us distracted and off course from the destiny and inheritance that God hand-picked and created specifically for us...

If not for a dumb beast's incomprehension at its own destruction beneaththe loving hands of two heartbroken children.

Macbeth:If we should fail?Lady Macbeth:We fail?But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.

Fear the vulture and the vulture will come. Fear nothing and you are the vulture.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves.

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.