Am I really a good mathematician?

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.

There are no answers, only cross references.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

If you have to fall in love, fall in love with the magnificent beauty of a sunset. That love will beautify yourself and your world.

Man's obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer.

Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.

But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.

These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.