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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.
Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.
Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...
Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.
The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.
the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine
Feller was an ebullient man, who would rather be wrong than undecided.
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.
We are justified in calling numbers a free creation of the human mind.
One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.
I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text.
The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.
Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.
Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.
No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.
Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.
Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion.
Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning.
What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer.
It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.
Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.
Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
A person who can, within a year, solve x2 - 92y2 = 1 is a mathematician.
Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.
Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man.
It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.
Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.
Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.
The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night."
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.
You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.