Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

Rise above oneself and grasp the world.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

Eureka! (I have found it!).

Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. On floating bodies I, prop 5.

The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

But I can't rewrite history. I can only live with what's left.

Changed people change nations.

I don't want to find the secret. I'm afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret.

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.

It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.

The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides

Stockbrokers aren't too interested in a stock you can sit there for five years with.