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

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.

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 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 beauty of being alive is that each day you are given another chance to correct what you did wrong and improve on what you can do right.

If it were easy it would not be any fun.

Be careful not to give your child the impression that you love her perfect, performing parts more than you do her mediocre, stumbling parts.

I floor the gas pedal. The Sonoramic Commando V-8 growls like an angry tiger and leapfrogs us ahead of the traffic.

I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

I have no real tattoos. I wear my bruises and tons of scars as my tattoos.

My music definitely determines the direction we're gonna move in. It's like music, fashion, hair, makeup.