Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay.

One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself.

To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.

Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.

Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.

Inspiration is everywhere! I think you just have to have your eyes open.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

Because a lot of straight people think I'm nuts.

Long live free France.

Follow me,” Myrnin said. “And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.