Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.

The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.

My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles in the Encyclopaedia, is that it must be public.

In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.

Spend your money for education

Apathy is not compatible with love

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.

And I'll wash your other clothes. Shall I also order you a new set of leathers?" "Don't-" Wrath shut his mouth. "Sure. That'd be great. And, ah, could you get me some boxers? Black? XXL?

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

People want you to be ordinary.

A good soldier never leaves a man behind.

I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.

The only guiding principle you can use is to make something that you want to see.