The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future...

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club’s worth of speeches.

Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

Your home should be a reflection of how you want to live right now, and for the next phase of your life.

Even with billions of candles, you cannot create a Sun; with billions of lies, a single Truth!

Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.