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The next-most difficult thing in the world is to get perspective. The most difficult is to keep it.

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

The squares of the periodic times are proportional to the cubes of the mean distances from the sun.

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.

When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed.

There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

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I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.

The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.

I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.

I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful.

Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.

Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words; geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures.

... there's nothing new under the sun - everything can be traced back to Archimedes or even earlier.

When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.

An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

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