Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future...

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

What is this place?’‘Heaven.’ She laughed, ‘with better drinks!

Her killer wrote a note on that stationary.""A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it?

What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.

I read the whole Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. They don't take long.

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.

When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion.

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.

Time,--the most independent of all things.