Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.

The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment.

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

Most problems I work on are related to geometric structures on surfaces and their deformations.

Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes.

Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global.

Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.

One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.

We're allowing every Eric Harris, every troubled kid out there, to become the next Tim McVeigh.

In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.

Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.

Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged.

For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics

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