It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.

I was x years old in the year x2.

Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.

Common integration is only the memory of differentiation.

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

For the first time in her life, Jocelyn felt the hot shame of being underdressed for a party.

These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.

In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.

Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.

It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.

I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.