The thought: A logical inquiry

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.

I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.

There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height.

The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.

Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic.

What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth?

Arithmetic has began to totter.

May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you...

Nature awakens each day in brilliant autumn colors, making me wish the pale winter would bid adieu.

She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen and wishes come true.

O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.

I'm kind of a quiet leader, and I just try to lead by example. But then sometimes you have to say something.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.

Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.