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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.
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.
Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I.
No number before zero. The numbers may go on forever, but like the cosmos, they have a beginning.
Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.
Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.
High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles.
Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.
Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.
Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are surely among them.
God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.
Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer.
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.
What you learn from others you can use to follow. What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.
In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe.
Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.
You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.
I was never very good at school with... humanities... anything which was more a matter of opinion.
The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.
Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.
The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...
All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.
There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.
The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.