It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.

I do not know. [summarising his life's work]

The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.

Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.

It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to.

a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.

Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Those who prepare for war get it.