Geometry is the most complete science.

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Some people have got a mental horizon of radius zero and call it their point of view.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

Begin with the simplest examples.

For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: "We must know - we will know!"

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

To promise is to grant the future, it's a lie waiting to happen

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

That's what friends are for. The people who aren't in your life 'cause they're related, or hot for you. They just love you.

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.

The devil is in the detail.

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.