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I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.
The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.
Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.
Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.
They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out.
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.
I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.
Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra.
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater.
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.
Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
We are hoarding potentials so great they are just about unimaginable.
The Universe, wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.
He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.
You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.
Are we going to do any thinking today, or is it going to be all math?
Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.
An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.
I am still very fond of Australia, but my life is now in Los Angeles.
What interests me is the connection between maths and the real world.
The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable