Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.

Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.

Your voice is so mellifluous that I can listen to you forever.

A writer draws a road map where readers walks with their love, joy, anger, tears, and dismay. Every story, every poem, has different meanings for every reader.

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

Live everyday as though it's your last 'cause one day you'll be right.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

Whatever, the hour you run often is the best hour of the day.

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?

you have to love something before you can hate it.