There is no rigorous definition of rigor.

The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.

Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.

Life supports what supports more of life

When Today Is Properly Lived With Purpose, Love And Passion, There Is No Fear For Tomorrow.

You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same subject. You gotta understand humanity in order to portray it.

I'm not someone who thinks about the past. I'm so busy thinking about what I'm going to do today.

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

I've always tried to make sure that what I do really connects with the broader agenda of what my husband is trying to do.

To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.

Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.

I'd love to do music for films.