He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.

Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.

I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text.

It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.

Thoughts are steered in different ways.

The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.

Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.

It 'appens to be true. An' if'n yew want ter stay moi friend, yew'd best 'old yer turpitudinous twaddle of a tongue an' listen fer once.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Where did all these damn Indians come from?

You might be a redneck if you have to go outside to get something out of the fridge.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

Your heart has a little empty corner. You won't even know I'm there -- I'll be very quiet.

To pray diligently is more than half the task.

I want to become a person that shines when dancing.

And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be...