It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future...

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

It's great to make your own choices, but there's a price to pay. I could've made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy.

I love all reality TV - Strictly, 'The X Factor.' I really don't see why people are so snobby about it.

Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.

The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

Power comes from the navel center. If you meditate for an hour or so a day and you focus on that sphere, you will release a tremendous power that will enter your body. We call it the chi.

I don't like my books being defined by their "about"-ness. So now the subtitle has just become a kind of strap-line on the cover.

It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.