A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

There is no rigorous definition of rigor.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.

Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.

The value of ones heart is in the reminders of what fills it, words may sustain for a while but actions will always be the hope

The door of opportunity is always open

What you focus upon, is what exists in your reality.

Hi handsome hunting man Fire your little gun Bang! Now the animal Is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again creep again leap again Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh what fun.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.

My words are my bullets.

More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms.

Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.

There's a whole range of sources of inspiration for the drawings and stories. They come from dreams, hallucinations, pop songs, or other things I see in the world around me.