The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

Theory is needed to tell you where to look.

Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.

If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

There was a feeling in him like waiting for a punishment.

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.

Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on.

My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.

Hillary Clinton is using a private server for - where classified information go by. This is a - this is a serious administration?

You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Are we willing to do for the truth what others are willing to do for a lie?