Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.

A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.

Brains are like toddlers. They are wonderful and should be treasured, but that doesn't mean you should trust them to take care of you in an avalanche or process serotonin effectively.

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn't considered before.

I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.

I didn't want my music to be confused - even though I was and had a lot of questions. I wanted my music to capture a period in my life where I was sure.

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

When you reach round a dark corner to switch on a light, be careful. Slenderman will often run his finger over the back of your hand. This is the first signal of his interest in you.

NLP is an attitude and a methodology, not the trail of techniques it leaves behind