The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to decide which.

God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"

If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.

Nature imitates mathematics.

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.

[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory.

Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us forever.

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.

It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.

There's a place for farts, and there's a place for sharts.

I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

The doors of hell are locked from the inside!

a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.

People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

I don't want to tell you how to be a prince, but shouldn't you have some bodyguards or something?" "Bodyguards? Who would want to harm a charming guy like me?

I just know who I am and what's comfortable for me and I don't personally do things in life because others do it or because that's what society tells me I should do.

Success does not mean taking, it means truly growing and giving