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His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.
The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.
A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.
The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.
It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.
Manifesto. Read my Manifesto. I`ve written a Manifesto. It`s all in the Manifesto!
To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."
In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.
Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.
There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.
Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.
One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.
Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity.
The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.
Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.
Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though.
Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.
Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.
I've made it a policy to move every five years, either physically or in my research.
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!
There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.
Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.
Asked if he believes in one G-d, a mathematician answered: "Yes, up to isomorphism".
It may be more important in the mathematics class how you teach than what you teach.
Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.
The object of pure Mathematic (is) that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.
If I don't understand something properly, every single component, it really bugs me.
Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.
The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.
It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.
The open secret of real success is to throw your whole personality into your problem.
It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.