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When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.
When you're concentrating hard, hours can fly by, and it's just you and a math problem.
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?
Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.
Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.
God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.
The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.
One does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient.
Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.
You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.
It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.
The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.
If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.
It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.
There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.
Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.
All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.
There exist a lot of questions that the fools can ask, and the intelligent cannot answer.
At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.
God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!
The older we become, the more important it is to use what we know rather than learn more.
I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.
It is invaluable to have a friend who shares your interests and helps you stay motivated.
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
I don't have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.
Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.