One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may it never come) will be the mathematicians' war.

Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.

The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.

The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight.

Be the change, you seek from society

My philosophy in life is to eat, drink and investigate - in that order.

But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon.

A person can have the greatest idea in the world - completely different and novel - but if that person can't convince enough other people, it doesn't matter.

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.

I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.

I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.

I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.