The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.

Numerical precision is the very soul of science.

It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.

We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.

Everything is what it is because it got that way.

…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and the correctness of experiments.

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

The promises of prayer are extraordinary, but for prayer to work as God promises it to work, it must be purged of self and doubt.

When a person becomes aware of their genius and they live it and they give generously from it, they change the world, they affect the world. And when they depart everyone knows something is missing.

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.

The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

I dream of a Digital India where the world looks to India for the next Big Idea.