Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.

In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.

Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.

I did about 50 pull-ups and 1,000 crunches a day. Crazy.

People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians

Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light

You can actually see God, and Hear Him, play with Him. It might sound crazy, but He is actually there.

Thank God for the theater.

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.