The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

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

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.

We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.

If the Khalifah implements even one law outside of the divine law, then he will be removed. The courts will face him and he will face capital punishment and he will be removed.

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

For the people who believe, you don't have to explain, and for the people who don't believe, no explanation is good enough.

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.

As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

I have never had one moment of stage fright and performing has always been a huge thrill and source of enjoyment for me. It's part of my personality.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.