Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Physicists believe that the Gaussian law has been proved in mathematics while mathematicians think that it was experimentally established in physics.

Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?

Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end consumes us all. Who am I, administrated or no, to have the audacity to survive it?

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women.

I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up against argument.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added.

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.