It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.

Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.

The storm transforms the soul.

We live with this tortured feeling that we must create that which in reality we have the privilege of finding.

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.

There is also a distinct possibility that there are other actors ? whose names have not leaked to the press ? who may stand just as good a chance of landing the part.

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital.

When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.