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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.
There is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities.
For what could be more beautiful than the heavens which contain all beautiful things.
I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.
A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see its light shining on you.
My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.
All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.
Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.
All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed.
In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.
There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.
Oil is seldom found where it is most needed, and seldom most needed where it is found.
Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.
In highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today.
I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.
You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!
What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty
The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.
The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.
The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.
But if we play it safe, the problem is that we may be losing out, and I believe we are.
The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.
The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.
If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.
I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.
Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.