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Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.
An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.
The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.
Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.
We call the slope of a line m because the word "slope" begins with the letter m.
No problem is so intractable that something interesting cannot be said about it.
Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
The real problem is what can man and machine do together and not in competition.
Good scientists will fight the system rather than learn to work with the system.
I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.
The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.
Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.
However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
Great innovation only happens when people aren't afraid to do things differently.
If you cannot solve the proposed problem try to solve first some related problem.
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.
The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.
Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.
In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
I enjoy a good meal, a good vacation, or a good movie, much as anyone else would.
The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.