The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.

The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

The object of pure Mathematic (is) that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

There is nothing better in the whole world than to know you have set a goal and achieved it.

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses it would still be just to deem it good for something.

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement.

When I awake Yesterday is far away When I awake I don't recall your name, my only friend.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

All memory can do is scream for touch.

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.