My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering down a street.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

I’d been doing everything to please everyone else and some imaginary me.

Take a seat, Charlie, ” he said. “I’ll kill you in a few minutes. It’ll be good for you.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

I think it's a right that every American parent should have - choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.

Our economy is robust and will remain strong as more Americans who want a job find one. Republican economic policies based on tax relief are working for the American people.

I'm done growing. I only grow when I put my high heels on now.

I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.

Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.

It is positive that the change in Finland means a rush in the elections and not in the streets.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.