The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

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.

Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.

The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.

. .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.

Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.

Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

She knew it was the right decision, even though she was still scared. Doing nothing would achieve nothing.

It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.