Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines.

Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

There is no rigorous definition of rigor.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.

Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.

Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Company names without clear pronunciation or spelling won't last.

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

Yoga is really the practice of seeing what's most important. Focusing on that first. Then it helps everything else sort of fall into alignment.

You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.

Mine, ... Mine is what she is.

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

There was unusual unanimity on our pastoral responsibility to care for the immigrants in our midst no matter their country of origin or religious affiliation.