My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles in the Encyclopaedia, is that it must be public.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.

The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.

In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.

The people who move forward and overcome their fears do not have some special powers or a magic pill they take

There’s a dignity in consequences.

In Wyoming, the beauty of our mountains is matched only by the grit of our people.

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

A jug fills drop by drop.

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact.

Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my children, and it shall be as often on my tongue as the name of the Great Spirit.

No really great man ever thought himself so.