The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.

I was x years old in the year x2.

Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.

It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

Common integration is only the memory of differentiation.

As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias.

Don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

The sacred moment is splendid.

If we can play like that every week well get some level of consistency.

I've endured quite a bit of physical pain. My mom says that I got my first set of stitches when I was one-and-a-half. A cat got my eye.

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.

My advice would be that once [Donald Trump] enters office, there should be a separation, a blind trust or some kind of blind trust.

If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right ar**hole.

If that makes your lawyers or managers happy, well, good for them. You still have a lot to worry about.