Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

Euclid for children is barbarous.

Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.

Your Mercy is my social status.

We need to find a fair and viable solution on the basis of U.N. resolutions and the incompatible with the fact that Cyprus is an E.U. member state.

You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

I'm encouraging you to know what you're worth. And know that no matter who has more money in class, who has more stuff, who has a country house - nobody is worth more than anybody else.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

Spices are very hot, very hip. I love spices. I've always loved the Mediterranean flavors.

Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.