Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

The unnatural - that too is natural.

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been a very, very open book.

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.

Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.

Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.