Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.

It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.

Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.

Where there is no math, there is no freedom.

We must picture Oxford, during World War I, not as the neomedieval paradise it would like to be, but as the military compound it was obliged to become.

When you hope for the best for sure something better will happen.

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.