Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

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.

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

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

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.

There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.

I never grew up on Jodeci. I never grew up on things like that 'cause my dad was a preacher, and he kind of kept us away from music like that.

Audiences want to see them, and in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

Notice that all the traditional things philosophers do, looking for validity and soundness, promote civic friendship. That sounds pretty pie in the sky, yes, but I actually believe it.

From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.

My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, 'Why don't you ever call me Tiger?' He says, 'Well, you look more like a Sam.