In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.

The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

Joy comes from knowing that God is at work in your life in spite of your circumstances.

Let the red dawn surmise What we shall do, When this blue starlight dies And all is through.”(The Yellow Sign)

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.

If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.

I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time.

An unlimited future. Isn't that what America is all about?

When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.

Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.