The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

To seek first the kingdom of God is not to forfeit divine direction

The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.

The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!

I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.

We have embarked upon the world's largest and longest cocktail party, and every issue imaginable is up for grabs.

Friends: how many have 'em? How long before they split like atoms? Don't ask me, but what I do stand behind Is someone havin' your back seems hard to find.

When you have elections in which 90% or 95% or 99% of those elected come from one party, then I think there is some fraudulent act.

You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning.

The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable.

Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature.