John von Neumann was the only student I was ever afraid of.

In order to solve this differential equation you look at it until a solution occurs to you.

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

It may be more important in the mathematics class how you teach than what you teach.

If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

Mathematics is not a spectator sport!

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time

Whenever I have free time, I love to just lay in my bed and watch YouTube videos, watch movies. Just basically do nothing.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.

The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.

The capitalism we are in now is already coming to an end

I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity

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I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.