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Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.
I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison
The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.
The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.
Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.
The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.
In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.
If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.
For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.
More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.
It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.
Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.
Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.
One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.
I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.
I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.
To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!
For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.